Quotes of: British-actors Keyword

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

William Mapother

A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.

Will Smith

I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.

Zosia Mamet

I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

Bela Lugosi

As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.

Dakota Blue Richards

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

Donnie Wahlberg

People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.

Gary Ross

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.

John Wayne

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

Katori Hall

Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed.

Mercedes McCambridge

I've been fortunate to work with several actors and directors who I look up to, and learned from each of them.

Paul Dano

I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.

Sam Raimi

As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege.

Tommy Lee Jones

Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.

Willem Dafoe

Oh, a sleeping drunkard Up in Central Park, And a lion-hunter In the jungle dark, And a Chinese dentist, And a British queen-- All fit together In the same machine. Nice, nice, very nice; Nice, nice, very nice; Nice, nice, very nice-- So many differe...

Cat's Cradle

Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.

Mortal Stakes

Caroline's lips thinned, her face flushed. "My husband, sir, has more secrets in his tiny, insignificant mind than the entire British War Department has had on file since its inception." She huffed with pure, disgusted outrage, lowering her gaze to t...

My Darling Caroline

Rumors went round that I might be gay. In some ways, I was happy w/ this. Larry Rivers proved to me that a gay man could be wild, attractive, and courageous; in any case one's sexuality was becoming less of an issue every day. One of the great things...

Pete Townshend

When I started working on 'Battlestar Galactica' in Canada, I was told to get as fit as a marine for my character Lee 'Apollo' Adama. So I did. But now I have a problem with suits, because I'm 5 ft. 9 in. with a 40 inch chest and a 31 inch waist, so ...

Jamie Bamber

I find a difference in British spy fiction and American spy fiction. In the American version, it's more militaristic, partly because the CIA has more of the military makeup. Whereas MI6 is more of a cerebral, intelligence-based, relationship-based se...

Charles Cumming

On Screen Text: [first lines, the text that appears on screen] In 1814, the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to the island of Elba, off the coast of Italy. Fearing an attempt to rescue him, his British captors would shoot anyone who came ...

The Count of Monte Cristo