Actors quotes

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

“Any good actor is a character actor.”
James Remar

“There's a lot of us idiot actors that get tattoos and they cover them with makeup when you do a film.”
Seann William Scott

“My journey has been that of a character actor.”
Harry Carey Jr.

“I still think of myself as a stage actor.”
Tony Shalhoub

“It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks.”
Jeremy Piven

“All actors are incredibly insecure.”
Terence Stamp

“I feel a little guilty only being an actor.”
Blythe Danner

“Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.”
Victoria Abril

“The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry.”
Martin Landau On Sir Charlie Chaplin

“I think any actor would rather do quality work than the episodic TV which pays the rent.”
Christopher McDonald

“My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.”
Anjelica Huston

“From the beginning I've thought the key to this games is to be in it for life.”
Michael Murphy

“Well, I think that there is a connection between being a lawyer and a doctor and an actor. They kind of, in some ways, have the same appeal, I suppose.”
Jeffrey Jones

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

“I think most actors want to try to do all different genres at least once.”
Tracey Walter

“I do not look for films that have weird characters or offbeat characters. An actor brings to a part that he plays the qualities that they, the actor, have.”
Tracey Walter

“I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.”
Paul Rudd

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

“If I have anything to offer as an actor, it's only my ability to make the person real.”
Kevin Pollak

“I speak to my agent about great roles, and he's like, 'They are all going to Will Smith.'”
Cuba Gooding Jr. On Will Smith

“Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.”
Kevin Kline

“Actors in general have become very spoiled in the roles they choose these days.”
Brian Cox

“I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.”
Sam Rockwell

“A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.”
Helena Bonham Carter