Quotes of: British-actors Keyword

When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.

Lauren Graham

I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.

Lena Headey

I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.

Loudon Wainwright III

I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films.

Lennie James

There are actors in this town who made important careers for a long, long period just by taking the parts that Cary Grant turned down.

Louis Jourdan

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.

Laurence Olivier

Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould.

Leander Paes

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.

Lee Strasberg

Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter.

Matthew Ashford

As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't.

Matt Bomer

There's a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor.

Mayim Bialik

I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?

Monica Bellucci

Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.

Morgan Brittany

I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.

Michael Caine

Everybody works in a different way, and I've worked with actors that have no training whatsoever who are phenomenal.

Michael Cudlitz

Everybody in L.A. wants to be an actor. I just wish I could meet somebody who doesn't act or sing.

Miranda Cosgrove

As an actor, if you want to while shooting, you can run back to your trailer and take a nap. But you cannot do that while directing.

Misha Collins

People will consider me a part of their lives for however long 'Downton Abbey' lasts. It's a lovely thing to feel as an actor.

Michelle Dockery

When actors are the real deal, all that star whatever goes right out the window and you're there to tell a story.

Mireille Enos

Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who watch what we do.

Martin Freeman

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.

Morgan Freeman