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[In New York,] when you say you're an actor, there's a certain level of respect that goes with that. — Condola Rashad

As an actor, you think you have to go really far and deep and cry and yell to be good in a scene. Sometimes that's not the point. — Berenice Bejo

The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space. — Robert Wilson

It's weird talking about projects as an actor because you're so in them. I would prefer to write a paper and deliver it to everyone via e-mail. — Kristen Stewart

Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing subsequent episodes. — Dan Futterman

There are many ups and downs in everyone's life and when you're an actor usually you're a very sensitive human being. — Melanie Griffith

When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things. — Richard Gere

Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that. — Jerry Ferrara

I believe your thoughts are your thoughts, but are you a human being in front of the camera, or an actor? They are two different things. — Harry Lloyd

As an actor, you're always in situations that can be compromising. But you can wipe away that gray area by making a choice. — Kyle MacLachlan

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it. — Benedict Cumberbatch

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession. — Uta Hagen

I use so much of myself in everything I do. I think every actor does because you have no one else to go to but yourself and your own imagination. — Pierce Brosnan

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience. — Josh Peck

When you're an actor, you're very much exposed, but in a strange way you're totally protected behind a character, behind a script, behind a director. — Mathieu Demy

By week three, if an actor is still coming to work in a full outfit at four a.m., you can be sure that they're banging someone on set. — Anna Kendrick

I was doing telenovelas in Miami and Mexico, and everyone's dream when you're an actor is to be in Hollywood. — Emeraude Toubia

As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege. — Tommy Lee Jones

As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do. — Michael Cudlitz

When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person. — Pam Grier

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions. — Nicole Kidman

That's the worst thing for an actor: when you say to someone, "Yeah, I was in that movie," and they say, "You were?" — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I went to school to be an actor in Canada and realized I hated auditions once I left, which is a huge problem if you want to get a part. — Brad Goreski

As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role. — Jeremy Northam

I feel that in order to truly be an actor, you have to differentiate yourself and your roles. — Michelle Trachtenberg

Directing talent is very nebulous. You know, it's not in front of you like an actor's performance. — Michael Douglas

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different. — Cate Blanchett

Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's what I like. — Miles Teller

You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by you as an actor. — Harold Perrineau

You're an actor - people judge you and criticize you, and praise you and say you're great in equal measure. — Laurence Fox

An actor is like a piece of clay: you just keep moulding me. Even people who work with you every day want to put you in a little box. — Erika Eleniak

You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking. — Natasha Leggero

Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before. — Michael Shurtleff

My mother implanted in me as a young girl ... you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's. — Hillary Clinton

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy. — Nicole Sullivan

As an actor, you come in contact with so many different people and cultures. It makes you a more accepting person. — Taylor Spreitler

For everybody, the tide comes in, the tide goes out - if you're an actor, particularly. — Alan Arkin

The best visual effects are when you shoot as much of what you can in camera. And it's really good for the actor's performance to have something real. — Rob Letterman

You have to be a wonderful actress or actor to survive in this world. — V.C. Andrews

I've been given lots of great advice, in my life. As an actor, just being as honest and as present as you can be. — Rachel McAdams

You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script. — John Taylor Gatto

There's no way that I could be the president. You can't have a pacifist in the White House ... I'm an actor. This is what I do for a living. — Martin Sheen

You must be so thoroughly immersed in the given circumstances of the play, then you decide what it is at any given moment what that the actor wants. — Constantin Stanislavski

If you have the opportunity as an actor to control your career in any way, then you've won the jackpot. — Romola Garai

Whenever you're making a dark comedy, you're always looking for the yin and yang in an actor. — Jamie Babbit

The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles. — Kabir Bedi

I live in Minnesota. Lots of people assume that if you want to be an actor, you have to live in Hollywood, but not me. — Chris Massoglia

There's a lot of idiots in Hollywood, a lot of people with no imagination, so as an actor you have to constantly re-show them what you can do. — Stephen Dorff

As a fortysomething actor, you reach a plateau of maturity from which you can really get stuck in. — Julian Sands

It is a tough business but if you get yourself in a situation like I, you can maintain a career over many years. That, to me, is a successful actor. — Ray Stevenson

Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity. — Tracey Gold

I'm a different actor than you thought I was. Don't put me in a box. I'm not just some kid running around screaming curse words. — Jonah Hill

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave. — Vincent D'Onofrio

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it! — George A. Romero

I think as you mature as an actor things open up to you in a lot of ways, especially if you do work on yourself. — John Leguizamo

You know, my point in being an actor is to get people to believe that this is not about me, but something else. — Jim Caviezel

I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed. — Lisa Kudrow

As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face. — James Purefoy

As an actor, of course, you want to be in something that's successful. — Marina Sirtis

I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor. — Scott Wolf

I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business. — Becki Newton

Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been trying that for forty years. — George Burns

As an actor ... at some point you've got to forget that the crew's there in order to do your job. — Cliff Curtis

The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out. — Penelope Wilton

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on. — Larenz Tate

The challenge in most car chases is you're trying to hide the fact that it's not the actor driving. — Christopher McQuarrie

One of my favorite things in watching an actor is feeling, The story is safe in your hands. I can lean back and trust you with this. — Alison Pill

Being a popular director or actor's son can be frightening in this industry. What if you are not able to make it? — Anupam Kher

When you're an actor working in the theater, you would never say anything to the writer, never alter the dialogue, never dream to ask for changes. — Jill Hennessy

The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, 'Who won the Oscar last year?' — Cliff Robertson

I've said this so many times but there's a magic when you have a really good actor in a really good makeup. — Rick Baker

As an actor, you're in the hands of producers and directors. It's important to find out who you're working with. — Sean Bean

If an actor is going to be an action hero, do it in a Robert Rodriguez movie, because that guy is going to make you look like a million bucks. — Freddy Rodriguez

I'll never admit that I'm an actor, because the next horrible follow-up question is always, "Oh, what have I seen you in?" — Michael Ian Black

The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months. — Jesse Eisenberg

Even if you have a gift, it's nearly impossible to become a good actor in just a few weeks of training. — Signe Baumane

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect. — Rob James-Collier

I love being an actor, especially in movies, because you get to be someone else. — Mason Cook

When you're the lead actor in a drama, you have 2 1/2 months at the end of a season to do other projects, and everything has to get done in that time. — Melina Kanakaredes

Before Michael Caine you had to have been in the RAF to be an actor. — Bob Hoskins

There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm an actor ... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job. — James Gandolfini

What you always try to do, as an actor, is find the thing that's universal in the person. — Finn Wittrock

There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you. — Damian Lewis

In almost any profession, even if you're the kid of an actor, people are very supportive and want to see the next generation. — Dhani Harrison

Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can. — Rick Springfield

You spend most of your time as an actor unemployed, so you're not going to hear me complaining that I haven't had a day off in three weeks. — Sendhil Ramamurthy

The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you don't have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore. — Dick Powell

I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of. — Maggie Siff

In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined. — Jena Malone

Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons! — Christine Lahti

The beauty of being an actor in a horror film is that you know what to expect and what's coming. — Denzel Whitaker

I have less than no interest in trying to replicate another brilliant actor's work, thank you very much. — Martin Freeman

You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly. — Iain Glen

You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time. — Elisha Cuthbert

As an actor, you've got to live and learn, and you gotta just kind of form a hard shell and be confident in yourself. — Jessica Stroup

Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it's almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync. — Steve Martin

An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor. — Joel Kinnaman

If you carry a paperback book in your back pocket, but spend more time on your hair than you do reading it, you're probably a bad actor. — Dov Davidoff

I see pictures in my mind and become the character in the song as I'm writing. It's kind of method songwriting, where you're the actor in the song. — Diane Warren