Quotes of: British-actors Keyword

I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

Patrick Macnee

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

Peter Mullan

I didn't grow up wanting to be an actor, and I didn't go to acting school.

Paul Schneider

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

Quentin Tarantino

If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.

Quentin Tarantino

I'd rather be Vincent Price than a red-neck character actor. You can't predict what will happen.

Robert Englund

The point of being a movie star is that people cast you in a role. Actors tie themselves in knots trying to get out of that.

Romola Garai

Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.

Rachel Joyce

I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what they want. And that can be really, really frustrating.

Ricky Jay

When I was an actor, I was part of a team, which I loved. You are a part inside something which is larger.

Ross Kemp

I'm not one of those actors who asks for too many favours. So when I do, people tend to listen.

Ryan Kwanten

Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.

Sharon Horgan

When I went to school - Pasadena Playhouse - we were taught that the obligation of the actor is twofold: to entertain and to educate.

Sid Haig

As actors, we want to choose somebody who has conflicts. I can't be always playing the girl next door. What's the challenge in that?

Sonam Kapoor

Whatever it takes, the job of the director is to be the leader and to get your actors where they need to go. That's a philosophy that I have.

Shawn Levy

With 'Twilight,' I felt the actors needed to be up-and-coming artists that haven't been recognized yet.

Stephenie Meyer

I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.

Sean Penn

I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.

Sara Rue

If I wasn't an actor and I watched my films, I could easily be like 'This guy's a clown,' you know?

Seann William Scott

Artists, actors, people like that, they live in a very strange bubble of their own. They're mollycoddled; they're highly privileged.

Steve Wynn

There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.

Toni Collette