Top Actors Quotes
I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.
Ryan Phillippe
The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.
Reese Witherspoon
It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare for moments of revelation that can be read entirely on actors' faces without dialogue.
Robert Towne
I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company.
Tony Randall
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
Alfred Hitchcock
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After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone.
Alfre Woodard 
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But what I did think would be interesting is if we created a fictitious story of our own, and then took these stories that we had collected and assigned them to characters who would be played by actors.
Jim McKay
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Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is.
Hugh Grant
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Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
Charlie Chaplin
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I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses, or musicians. And you know, I've been a big fan of different musicians or actors.
Laura Bush
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I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit.
Ron Silver
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I'd just love to have an audience and it's the most fun in the world to get a new script every week and have the audience come in, and work with those actors.
Sara Gilbert
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If you cast the picture correctly, you have a whole lot of leeway. You can make mistakes in other aspects but pull it off with the right actors.
John Frankenheimer
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One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.
Cyril Cusack
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