Actors quotes

“It's difficult to judge other actors, because as an actor you're looking at different things than what an audience is looking at.”
Henry Cavill

“As an actor, you create your own ideas.”
Alex Borstein

“Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.”
Alex Borstein

“- Casting Agent: You have a malevolent presence. You are a perfect build. I could see you as Dracula, Frankenstein.
- Tommy Wiseau: I’m not Frankenstein! I am hero.”
Greg Sestero - Casting Agent
James Franco - Tommy

“We're actors, Greg. For you, me, people like us, even the worst day on a movie set is better than the best day doing anything else.”
Jacki Weaver - Carolyn

“The deadly thing in my job is to attach too much meaning to everything. You have to have a sense of humor about yourself...”
Adam Driver

“Audiences don't know somebody sits down and writes a picture; they think the actors make it up as they go along.”
William M. Holden - Joe Gillis

“- Joe Gillis: I didn't know you were planning a comeback.
- Norma Desmond: I hate that word. It's a return, a return to the millions of people who have never forgiven me for deserting the screen.”
William M. Holden - Joe Gillis
Gloria Swanson - Norma Desmond

“You forget I'm an actor... and I suffer very well.”
Asier Etxeandia - Alberto Crespo

“I've had a lot of experience in matters of this kind. I've killed dozens of people... in pictures.”
Humphrey Bogart - Dixon Steele

“- Mildred Atkinson: Before I started to go to work at Paul's, I used to think that actors made up their own lines.
- Dixon Steele: When they get to be big stars, they usually do.”
Martha Stewart - Mildred Atkinson
Humphrey Bogart - Dixon Steele

“We all have abnormalities in common. We're a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk. We are the original displaced personalities.”
George Sanders - Addison DeWitt

“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

“Fassbender is fearless; he's a fearless actor.”
Ben Mendelsohn On Michael Fassbender

“I think, for any actor, L.A. is where it all seems to be.”
Samara Weaving

“I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type.”
Burgess Meredith

“I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.”
Roddy McDowall

“There are definitely worse people to be compared with. I think Brad Pitt makes interesting decisions.”
Charlie Hunnam On Brad Pitt

“Actors sure have stories. We always have stories. At the end of our careers, all we have to take with us is our stories, and we have many of them.”
Michael Eklund

“- Elderly Woman: We just want to know who's playing Laurel and Hardy, please.
- Glasgow Empire Manager: They're playing themselves.
- Elderly Woman: Who are?
- Glasgow Empire Manager: Laurel and Hardy. Here in person, the poster says, they're here in person.”
Veronica Clifford - Elderly Woman - Glasgow
Sanjeev Kohli - Glasgow Empire Manager

“When you're just an actor, you do your role, and then you're in your trailer. It's not as hands on as when you're directing. You live and breathe it.”
Jason Momoa

“I made a conscious decision not to date actors.”
Margot Robbie

“It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.”
Rose Byrne

“Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.”
Rose Byrne

“It's not easy to shut an actor's mouth.”
Vincent Price - Prof. Henry Jarrod