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I'm an actor - it's not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won't ask for their money back.

People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go.

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he's not alone in the way he feels about himself.

Maybe they say they do but I don't think many actors really enjoy trying to do a Shakespearean play.

I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.

In working with Nick Cannon, he's such a generous guy, a generous actor, and he was very protective.

The biggest compliment I can ever get as an actor is to have someone say, 'We didn't recognize you.'

When I started studying acting, I was enamoured of actors who used movement to enhance the language.

I'm here to be an actor who wants to be remembered for her roles and her films rather than her looks.

I always feel to do mythological and horror shows you need to be terrific actors. I am not that good.

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

Working with amazing people, you continue to learn and develop yourself, as an actor and as a person.

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance.

One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn't necessarily play villains, is Peter Lorre.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'

Good actors aren't enough. You need charisma. Can you imagine 'Casablanca' without Bogart and Bergman?

I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.

Hugh Grant is really the perfect actor for romantic comedies. Anything he does is invariably charming.

Bad actors try to cry, and good actors try not to. Bad actors try to laugh, and good actors try not to.

All actors are my brothers and my sisters. It ain't cool to compare or disparage them. It ain't polite.

I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'

You can't act alone. Use the props, the setting, the crew around you, and of course, your fellow actors.

I'm just back in line with every other actor looking for a job right now and keeping my fingers crossed.

I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.

I'm a physical type of actor and love projects in which I can get physical. The more action, the better.

I know that I'm a decent actor, but it's another thing to be in a scene with Jon Hamm and hold your own.

Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.

I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.

My favourite actor is Daniel Day Lewis. He's the finest actor in Hollywood. I've studied his performances.

I don't know, as long as I get to evolve and grow as an actor and as a person, that's the stuff I'm after.

I'm an extraordinarily anxious person. I'm a typical actor: narcissistic and paranoid and all them things.

My career aspirations as an actor have always been driven foremost by the creative desire to be versatile.

Being a woman, an actor in Hollywood, I know that there are certain parts I won't often get a chance to do.

I hate to think of the day when nobody remembers me as an actor and I can't get good tables in restaurants.

There's nothing more thrilling than watching great actors say things that you wrote and bring them to life.

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool.

All of these red carpet events may seem natural for you journalists, but it doesn't feel natural for actors.

I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor.

Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

I'm a huge fan of John Malkovich and Josh Brolin, and Michael Shannon has got to be one of my favorite actors.

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.

If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.

As an actor, you spend years getting ready for an opportunity to arise, and when it does, you're ready for it.

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

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