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Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me. — Lee Child

Actors are the only honest hypocrites. — William Hazlitt

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

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

An actor can be as talented as another, but if he doesn't stick to what the director's intentions are, it all falls down. I adore working with actors. — Nicholas Ray

I want to do films that challenge me. I want to do what the actors I look up to are doing - the Gary Oldmans and Daniel Day-Lewises. — Josh Bowman

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

There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson. — John Schlesinger

Sean Penn, for his acting as well as his writing and directing. There are so many actors I respect, but his reach is so wide. — Boyd Holbrook

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

I don't like artists who are actors. I like artists, but I don't believe in that. — Chris Stokes

I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity. — Hugh Laurie

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

I love working with actors. I grew up with a lot of actors. All my friends are actors. I love that process. — Colin Hanks

As an actor, I've been drawn to those characters that are further away from who I may be. — Kurt Sutter

Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact. — Uwe Boll

I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize. — Danny Strong

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

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

Actors are almost impossible to treat successfully. — Martin Grotjahn

There are quite a few actors in the business who are much more difficult than kids or monkeys. — Paul Hogan

Dog movies nowadays are not what dog movies were 50 or even 10 years ago. For one thing, the dogs have become better actors. — Benjamin Cheever

Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.' — Bill Nighy

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

I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great. — Gael Garcia Bernal

The Russian famous actors involved [into The Darkest Hour], they are very creative and they will create sympathetic characters. — Timur Bekmambetov

Both my parents are actors, and I saw them struggle with work, waiting for phone calls. — Charlotte Le Bon

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

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying. — Bruce Campbell

As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are. — Bryan Cranston

Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write. — Russell Simmons

With Superman, there are certain limitations for an actor. You can't go past certain boundaries because then you cease to be what the character is. — Henry Cavill

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do. — Alyssa Milano

I think people when they think of comedic actors they forget that they are people with a point of view and experiences and depth. — Channing Tatum

Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of acting. — Matthew Lillard

I'm very social. It's just most of my friends are not actors. — Topher Grace

School is like theater. Teachers are like directors, students are like actors, and classes are like theatrical presentations. — Victor Miller

I happen to be very good with younger actors because I have extremely vivid memories of that time of my life, and kids are just funny. — David M. Evans

I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is. — Samantha Bee

Human beings are, necessarily, actors who ... can be divided ... into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not. — W. H. Auden

Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness? — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I think actors always have that fear of unemployment so when the opportunities are there, you just jump on them. — Rosemarie DeWitt

Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns. — Kareena Kapoor Khan

I've done stuff to pay my dues and that's what actors are supposed to do, because I was a really bad actor when I was 18 or 20. — Rachael Taylor

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown? — Rachel Weisz

You're always looking for roles and other creatives who are going to be challenging to you, because you're always a better actor after the experience. — David Oyelowo

Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents. — Jean Kerr

Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained. — Mithun Chakraborty

We are all just actors trying to control and manage our public image, we act based on how others might see us. — Erving Goffman

Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders — Hannah Whitall Smith

Actors are merely the medium through which a story happens. — Ian McKellen

No matter how big a name you are, how many big series you've been in or how good looking you are, in the end, all actors are secondary to the writer. — Christopher Eccleston

People on series are now given a lot more opportunities, sometimes more than film actors. — Alyssa Milano

We [black actors] are more respected in Europe, because in Europe, I'm not a black actor - I'm an action star. In America, I'm a black actor. — Fred Williamson

I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily. — William Hurt

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum. — Robert De Niro

Most actors are pretty adaptable because we work with so many directors. — Kyle MacLachlan

Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play with our writing. — Jyoti Arora

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

There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions. — Val Kilmer

It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am. — Donnie Wahlberg

Just as actors are afraid of child audiences because they're so honest, I would be scared stiff of going before the big folks. — Bob Keeshan

Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings. — Marlon Brando

Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb. — Dirk Benedict

Actors are not always the best judges. We have a peculiar idea of what we think we are, and sometimes it's best left to others to decide what we play. — John Hurt

These are extremely talented actors who are all putting their talents into the Lost in Space movie. — Mark Goddard

It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors. — Gene Tierney

Most actors and actresses are performative as people. — Zoe Lister-Jones

I've always had an easy time directing actors because I always hire ones that are great before I get my hands on them. — Woody Allen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid. — Donal Logue

There's no such thing as good voices. Because there's no such thing as bad voices. There are only good actors and bad actors ... — Bob Bergen

The least amount of info actors get, the better. Actors are always like, 'What is my motivation for this?' You didn't write it. Just say the lines. — Steve Howey

I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it. — Heath Ledger

If there is one thing I object to, it's actors talking about how tough their jobs are. — Kevin Spacey

I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time. — Julian Fellowes

Someone once told me that the most dynamic actors are people who have stories. People who have lived life. People with experiences. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing. — Norman Jewison

There are a lot of good actors who work forever and never make one good thing. — Henry Zebrowski

All actors are whores.
They want only one thing: to seduce you. — Joyce Carol Oates

To a certain extent I suppose all actors are big kids. — Dominic Cooper

American actors are all muscular, tanned, white teeth and they have this indestructible confidence. We British are all ... Dare I say it? Pessimistic. — Max Irons

Actors are smart. They have to feel safe enough to fall and to get back up. My job is to make sure they don't get hurt. — Scott Ellis

There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black actors. — Anthony Mackie

I think actors tend to be in their element when they are pushed out of their comfort zone. — Matthew Lewis

It'd be hard to be a lead actor if I didn't have lips. Those are tough to graft back on. — David Walton

As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to say to the world. — Juliette Binoche

The more I study history the more I realize how little mankind has changed. There are no new scripts, just different actors. — Richard Paul Evans

The person you are is a thousand times more interesting than the best actor you could ever hope to be. — Constantin Stanislavski

Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that. — Matthew Macfadyen