Quotes of: British-actors Keyword

Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.

Robert Englund

I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.

Simon Callow

No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'

Gabriel Byrne

As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.

Glenn Close

Ninety percent of a good performance of an actor is based on the material. If you've got the material there, you can ride it.

Justin Kirk

I am a lucky regional theater actor who happened to get a good role.

James Marsters

As an actor, you don't have much choice about your appearance. It's a good excuse for looking ridiculous.

Kit Harington

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

You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.

Michael Cera

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

Nicolas Cage

I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.

Peter Billingsley

Actors have an innate sense of self and humanity, the good ones do, and of being generous of heart and generous of spirit.

Pierce Brosnan

My favorite actor is - I can't believe I'm saying this - is Meagan Good. I've met her in person.

Quvenzhane Wallis

In all of us, there is a struggle between the good and the bad. It makes it more palpable and real to play such people as an actor.

Randeep Hooda

Everybody thinks that actors would be really good at bluffing, but I think it's a little backward.

Ron Livingston

I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.

Steven Soderbergh

As actors, if you get a pilot on HBO or on USA, your odds are good that it's going to get picked up.

Tim DeKay

I've never revised my opinion of myself as an actor. I've always thought I was as good as my material.

Troy Donahue

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

Jessica Chastain

I think fear is one of the natural states of most actors, to be honest.

James McAvoy

I didn't become an actor to be famous. I genuinely love acting and never expected to make a penny at it.

Justin Chon