Quotes of: British-actors Keyword

The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.

Benjamin Bratt

I wasn't bullied or anything, but I was treated differently because I was an actor, and I had big dreams.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Maybe that's my lot in life as an actor, to be the guy who gets crapped on everywhere he goes. Oh God.

Rider Strong

That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.

Bruce Boxleitner

Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.

Bruce Davison

I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.

Eddie Marsan

I have trouble sometimes watching actors - even when they do a great job - with an accent.

Ellen Page

I'm a big Pacino fan. He's a great actor: so much passion and intensity.

Judah Friedlander

You're an actor - people judge you and criticize you, and praise you and say you're great in equal measure.

Laurence Fox

That's the great thing about being an actor, you know, you can just jump to different jobs.

Matt Dillon

The great thing as an actor is that I don't know what my agent is going to call me with next.

Matthew Lewis

Soaps are a great springboard for any actor but if you want to be taken seriously, you have to be careful.

Michelle Ryan

The great thing about 'Justified' is that the writers will craft a scene, but if the actors come up with a great idea, they're 100% for it.

Neal McDonough

A lot of actors said they hated the studio system, but I loved it. It was like a college; it was a great place to learn.

Richard Widmark

I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.

Stacy Keach

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

Sam Mendes

It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.

William Wyler

A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.

Zachery Ty Bryan

I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do.

Don Knotts

The greatest gift that an actor can have is good scripts because then you're relieved of the responsibility of trying to elevate the material.

Holt McCallany