Quotes of: British-actors Keyword

Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

Michael Gambon

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

Michael Ironside

As an actor, you always want to feel like what you're doing is making a difference to the story.

Matthew Lewis

Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of acting.

Matthew Lillard

Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.

Malcolm McDowell

My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.

Rupert Penry-Jones

I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.

Ryan Reynolds

It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.

Rafe Spall

It's difficult being a child actor. I don't think everything beautiful has to be exploited. Some things can be beautiful and left beautiful.

Ricky Schroder

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?

Rachel Weisz

I don't take myself too seriously. I think that's something so many actors and people in general tend to do.

Skylar Astin

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

Margot Robbie

I'm identified as a New York actor, I sound like I'm from New York, and I couldn't be more proud of it.

Michael Rapaport

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

Maggie Smith

I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.

Maggie Smith

There's no way that I could be the president. You can't have a pacifist in the White House... I'm an actor. This is what I do for a living.

Martin Sheen

There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done.

Mary Steenburgen

I'll write a character with a certain actor in mind, but then once I start casting, I have to forget about who I pictured.

Nicole Holofcener

On 'Saturday Night Live,' you wear so many hats there. You're the prop person, the actor, you're everything.

Casey Wilson

I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take.

Adam McKay

You need to see what the actor needs. This one wants to be talked to privately. That one doesn't mind if you block it for them. Just tell me the truth and I'll adapt to it.

Penny Marshall