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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

If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character. — William Hurt

Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them. — John Simm

I'm not much of an actor, I'm realizing. — Nick Wechsler

A lot of my mates are actors and it's lovely to be able to work with friends. — Luke Treadaway

I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting. — Rhys Ifans

The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly. — Joan Chen

British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it. — Luke Evans

The same thing I applied to football, I applied to trying to be an actor and hopefully it came off well. — Jerry Rice

In all of time, all of space, there will only be one you. How can you be anything but perfect? As you are. Mad, sad, glad. You are amazing. — Cindy Marcus

You learn from the actors that you're working with. — Tatiana Maslany

As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough. — Karine Vanasse

Stage actors look down on movie actors, movie actors look down on TV actors, and TV actors look down on ... mass murderers ... — George Clooney

I doubt I'm more secure than Meryl Streep. I guess actors just never feel secure. — Zoe Lister-Jones

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard. — Tom Sizemore

I rarely meet other young actors. — Mia Wasikowska

We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our own lives but reactors. — Frederick Buechner

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

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen. — W. H. Auden

I feel very privileged to have worked with a lot of outstanding actors: Alun Armstrong, Peter Mullan, Matt Smith and Andrew Garfield. — Andrew Buchan

England produces the best fat actors. — Jimmy Cannon

You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man. — Brad Pitt

It looked like Mission Control, if NASA's business was launching rockets full of rapping multiracial actors in colonial garb into space. — Lin-Manuel Miranda

As an actor, I feel like youre asked to live life as vibrantly as possible. — Stana Katic

It was so much fun working with these young kid actors. We had a great time and those kids are truly amazing. — Torii Hunter

I appreciate this moment in time ... ball players and actors be knowing my rhymes — Common

It's always great to be able to go to a premiere with the actors there. — Asif Kapadia

If I am not right for something there are many talented actors out there that will get it. — Tara Strong

Actors don't necessarily want to be famous or rich or anything else. It's a very bad gamble if that's what you're after. — Jeff Goldblum

Do you think he's the murderer?"
"It's worse than that
he's an actor! — Julian Fellowes

This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors. — Chow Yun-Fat

Actors should never give interviews. — Daniel Day-Lewis

(On period costume posture coaching
We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out. — Emma Thompson

Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama's favorite actors. — Dwayne Johnson

The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight. — John Charles Polanyi

You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors! — Terry Eagleton

If an actor or actress is recognizable, that changes our perception of them. — Nicolas Winding Refn

I think the choice of actors that we have is a little more varied and rich here in New York than in L.A. — Jerry Orbach

I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work. — Vincente Minnelli

One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors. — Cyril Cusack

Poorly written books are a kin to actors forgetting their lines. — Peggy Randall-Martin

Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs. — Vic Tayback

The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department. — John Hurt

What you try to do, as an actor, is just make it work somehow. — Giles Matthey

I want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor. — Bradley Cooper

Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours. — Ewan McGregor

A strange thing happens to me that I'm sure happens to a lot of actors when the camera starts rolling. I'm not 'me' any more. — Emily Browning

Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world. — Shirley Chisholm

Without chiropractic care, I couldn't have existed with my work as a TV and film actor. — Clint Walker

But then there is the one who seems to have a hard time separating the actor's work from reality. — Audrey Meadows

Actors with political views are a dime a dozen. — Tom Hanks

I love actors, number one. There's probably nobody that you could name that I don't like, depending on what it is they're in. — Mark Hamill

Um, musicians are funnier you know, than actors on the whole. — Tim Curry

I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play. — Molly Parker

I can be tough on actors, but I also let them know early on in our relationship what I expect from them. — Ricky Schroder

And I realized that directing actors is really important because that's what ends up on screen. — Julie Delpy

I'm sure there are actors out there who work with other actors on a consistent basis - I am not one of them. — Patti LuPone

In Hollywood, you still have wonderful actors, but it's so hard to work there. To work becomes a Kafka nightmare - it's the last communist country! — Gerard Depardieu

Actors strive to be part of something like 'Twilight' and what 'Twilight' is, is unbelievable. — Kellan Lutz

We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same. — Michael Caine

I'm always shocked when actors have diva-esque behavior. — Julianna Margulies

Every actor wants to do more, because you always think you can improve it. — Peter Jacobson

It's very important to be able to distinguish the actors from the characters they play. — Emily VanCamp

I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none. — Josh Lucas

I mean, I hate when actors talk about how hard their job is. It's ridiculous, because we have the best job in the world. — Jon Bernthal

Actors don't get to be well-known if they're horrible. — Michael Keaton

An actor is an expert at being someone else. A speaker is an expert at being themselves. — Olivia

I'm not one of those actors that knows everything about politics. — Justina Machado

For actors in Hollywood, it's very straightforward. We're well-paid animals in a zoo. — Robin Wright

Mr. Bergman had a great imagination and saw the possibilities within every one of his actors, and he gave us great challenges. It was very inspiring. — Max Von Sydow

As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that. — Angela Bassett

I'm not a good actor, I can play myself and a much gayer version of myself. That's my range. — Daniel Tosh

I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK. — John Malkovich

I never will believe there is such a thing as a great actor. — Robert Mitchum

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house. — Eric Bogosian

I thought I was going to go back to Stanford, and then I got Election. I loved being an actor. — Reese Witherspoon

I think if I learned anything in graduate school, it was to not drool around other actors who would normally make you drool. — Peter Jacobson

The Earth Is My Stage And The Sun Is My Spotlight — Joshua Teya

Europeans have a different take [on nudity] than American actors do. They're not quite as hung up. — Dennis Haysbert

I didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor. — Jodie Foster

I think there's a limited amount of planning you can do, at least in the position I'm in. Maybe more successful actors can plan more than I'm able to. — Christian Bale

As actors you don't want to have one label. You'd rather have seven. — Neil Patrick Harris

As a character actor, I've learned that you have to watch yourself because nobody else is watching. Nobody is concerned with you. — James Cromwell

Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat. — Francesca Annis

Actors always want to play the villain role at least once in their life. — Lee Byung-hun

Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That's all an actor is. He's like a serious Bruce Forsyth. — Bob Hoskins

Actors tell stories and we play different characters, and not all of them are healthy. — Andrea Roth

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference. — Bette Davis

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera. — Julian Fellowes

As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses. — Daniel Radcliffe

As an audience member and as an actor I much prefer to find ambiguity. — Michael Fassbender

I would tell the world that Shahrukh is the better actor — Shahrukh Khan

Every kid's dream is to be a great actor. — Matthew Lillard

Actors shouldn't be scared. Don't get scared on film. — Kodi Smit-McPhee

On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors. — Richard Gere

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes. — Hugh Sidey

I think most actors like to be liked. — Anjelica Huston

Emma Watson is my kids' favorite actor on the planet. They never took me more seriously than when I was working with her. — Ethan Hawke

Regeneration, however it is described, is a divine activity in us, in which we are not the actors but the recipients. — Sinclair B. Ferguson

Being actors is a strange job. — Paul Dano