Quotes of: Movie-actor Keyword

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.

Marianne Williamson

Some people do stage and film. Some people are film actors, and some people are stage actors. I'm quite sure that any of the actors who did the original production of 'August' could have done the film of 'August.' I don't think any of them were parti...

Tracy Letts

How do you say one actor is better than another actor? You can definitely say that in the Olympics if it's the same race and someone wins the race. The only way to really do it and have it be sincere would be if you get all the actors together, and t...

Nicolas Cage

I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director.

Arne Glimcher

Animals are the best actors. They never lie, they're always present, and they listen. That's a lot more than a lot of actors can say for themselves.

Graham Phillips

A lot of directors want to storyboard you, whereas the best way to get a performance out of an actor is a collaborative process where you listen to the actor's input.

Jacki Weaver

There are maybe 100 actors I look up to, but my first two favourite actors were Dustin Hoffman and Jack Nicholson.

Paul Dano

Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.

Robert Carlyle

The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor.

Steve Kazee

I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.

Saoirse Ronan

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

Kirk Douglas

I want to be an actor, and I am being an actor. I'm not ready to run off on a road trip. Yet.

Liane Balaban

I don't perform well in private. Socially, I mean. And I didn't as a child. Actors aren't necessarily outgoing, are they?

Lindsay Duncan

There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.

Luke Evans

AMC has a track record for finding actors who have been working actors but not names yet and casting them.

Mireille Enos

Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.

Morgan Freeman

Child actors going on to become adult actors never really works, apart from a few. Jodie Foster was the exception.

Mark Lester

People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.

Matthew Macfadyen

As an actor, I had noticed very vividly that very few directors know how to direct actors because they haven't done it.

Robin Wright

It took a long time for me to have any impact in the business because I didn't look like an actor, I didn't sound like an actor.

Brian Dennehy

I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.

Matthew Vaughn