Quotes of: British-actors Keyword

There's a certain thought process about actors that they are in Hollywood and they sit around pools and get suntans and just get offered jobs.

Chris Klein

I learned so much about being an actor by being a director. More than I ever thought I would.

Chris Lowell

Do I have any potential as an actor? I don't know. I'm still wondering. But acting has kind of taken over.

Christian McKay

I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to fill it out.

Christopher McQuarrie

What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information.

Cillian Murphy

I like being able to marry the actor and the technician inside of me. It's really fulfilling. It exercises all of my creative muscles.

Carrie Preston

The more you live, the better an actor you are, but maybe I'd like to do something else on the side. Something to pay the bills as well.

Clemence Poesy

For an actor, if you're not doing a job, you can't just practice acting. Your instrument is your whole person.

Charlotte Rampling

I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in one day.

Catherine Mary Stewart

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.

Constantin Stanislavski

I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an accent.

Corey Stoll

Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.

Claire Tomalin

It's not a prerequisite for an actor to be obsessed about his looks. I know there are people who don't look in the mirror at all, and I'm getting there.

Hrithik Roshan

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

Henry David Thoreau

If everyone's ready for a shot to start, except for one actor who's intent on getting to the bottom of their soul, it can be a bit annoying.

Ian Holm

I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.

Isabella Rossellini

Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.

Ian Somerhalder

A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.

Ira Sachs

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

Ice T

An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator.

Jane Asher

Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.

Jason Alexander