Quotes of: British-actors Keyword

Someone once told me that the most dynamic actors are people who have stories. People who have lived life. People with experiences.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.

Fred Allen

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.

Giancarlo Esposito

The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in.

Jason Alexander

My job as an actor is for you, so why should my private life be for you, too? That's not fair.

Martin Freeman

As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for me.

Michelle Fairley

I never saw an actor and thought, 'Wow, I want to be like that.' It's just I wanted it to be part of my life.

Marc-Andre Grondin

People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life, and I don't have one friend who is an actor!

Sara Paxton

What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.

Skeet Ulrich

As actors we give so much of ourselves away so I like to keep my personal life to myself.

Teresa Palmer

Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.

Zachary Quinto

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

Brittany Murphy

My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.

Carl Weathers

I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.

Danai Gurira

I think if you work as an actress and are supposed as a character to be in love with some actor, then to some extent you do have to be in love with him.

Dorothy Stratten

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!

George A. Romero

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it.

Jim Carrey

I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.

John Leguizamo

I love working with actors, and it's all been based on my being trained in the theater.

John Wells

There are many ways to be a mother. I have a lot of young actors I mentor, and my nieces and my nephews need a lot of love.

Kim Cattrall

I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivete, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!'

Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.