Quotes of: British-actors Keyword

For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it.

Ron Moody

For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works.

Simon Baker

I don't like waiting around for work, and sometimes as an actor you're forced into that position, so that's sort of how I got into writing, producing and directing.

Thomas Ian Nicholas

I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.

Zoe Wanamaker

You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.

Alec Baldwin

Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.

Amitabh Bachchan

I've always had, like, from the age of about 11, I've had such an intolerance for bad behaviour of actors that I don't think I was ever going to be that person.

Daniel Radcliffe

From a very young age, I wanted to be an actor, but I lived in a very small town in Florida where there weren't any opportunities for that.

Lauren Miller

I was trained as an actor and taught to believe at a very young age that I could be anything and do anything, and then you find yourself painted into a corner by your own image or persona.

Pierce Brosnan

When I was growing up, you'd read about actors, and they'd never tell you their age and how much they made a year as part of their definition.

Robert Osborne

I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think.

Lauren Bacall

Christina Ricci is amazing, the most professional actor I think I've ever met. You can be chatting with her and when they call action, she's right there.

Lisa Kudrow

Working with Al Pacino was an amazing experience. He's such an amazing guy. He's an incredible performer and actor - and, aside from that, just a generous human being.

Seth Numrich

At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form.

Eric Christian Olsen

But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.

Javier Bardem

Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

11/22/63

Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word.

The Art of Acting

No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.

The Art of Acting

Living in California, everyone learns to adapt their actor or actress within.

Where We Belong

The best way to learn how to work with actors is to have had experience of trying to act yourself - it will teach you humility if nothing else.

Alexander Mackendrick

The best thing for an actor is to try it his way. The way they do it may not work, but it may inspire me to try something else.

James Burrows