Actors quotes

“The reason I'm doing Shakespeare is to see if today's audiences can still relate to that. I'm not old or English, or anything, so this'll prove it once and for all.”
Keanu Reeves

When I hear an actress say, "You know what, I'm gonna have my face done, get my tits raised, and I'm going to get another ten years out of this business", I say, "More power to you. Go do it".
Michelle Pfeiffer

“I'm so extremely intelligent that it's actually harmed my career as an actor. Actors are supposed to be cattle.”
James Woods

“I'm a pro: I'm never late. I try to control flatulence.”
Donald Sutherland

“Clint developed his way of talking [on the screen] by studying the breathy speech pattern of Marilyn Monroe.”
Sondra Locke On Clint Eastwood, Marilyn Monroe

“Method actors give you a photograph. Real actors give you an oil painting.”
Charles Laughton

“I learned to act on the big screen. I was never a spear carrier. I was always the star. Always.”
Rob Lowe

“You're acting! Don't act! I don't act, that's why I'm a star.”
Errol Flynn

“I'm no actor - and I have sixty-four pictures to prove it.”
Victor Mature

“It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.”
Nastassja Kinski

“Actors, after all, dream.”
Nastassja Kinski

“I like the fact that Chris Rock is one of the best stand ups ever and still is a really good actor. And a great professional and a good friend and a wonderful human being.”
Dennis Dugan On Chris Rock

At my first party there (given for me), I overheard someone say, "He's the guest of honor? Who the fuck is he?". That brought me down to earth.

Sir Michael Caine

“Why the hell don't they hire some of the old ones? All those bastards at the studios are trying to do is find fifty-dollar-a-week Gables, Coopers, and Bogarts.”

Humphrey Bogart

When I first arrived in Hollywood, I met a studio executive who said, "Loved your work, Joe". When I asked what he had seen me in, he said, "Nothing".
Joseph Fiennes

“The best actors don't seem to live in California any more. When I went there, everyone lived in LA. Now, they don't. Only the rocks stars and MTV people do. I don't want to live there and become an orange.”
Lauren Bacall

“Tea at the Four Seasons Hotel poolside with Kevin Kline and a very pregnant Phoebe Cates, delineating which actors we have worked with are definitely certifiable or psychotic and reach a common consensus on a couple. I have only been here forty-eight hours and can already hear names being dropped and diarized as I plunge Alice-like, down, down,...” (continue)(continue reading)

Richard R. Grant

“Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.”
Carrie-Anne Moss

“I never thought I would get married and have kids. I thought I was going to be a gypsy actor, traveling all over the world playing the great roles. I ended up having a kid very young, and it put things in perspective.”
Bobby Cannavale

We're absolutely stupid to be embarked in a business where our face is connected with our accomplishments. When you get it from morning to night, it's no longer wonderful. No dear public ever did anything for me, and a few people in our industry have the courage to say, "Oh, my dear public, I'd kick 'em if I could".

Cary Grant

“I don't go to the movies. Maybe it's the same as not eating hot dogs after you've worked in a slaughterhouse. You know it's all made from ears and ass parts.”
Harrison Ford

“Wife-Mother-Actress-Author The world will remember.”

Eve Arden

“As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well and who doesn't.”
Scott Eastwood

“I know I'm capable of creating true art through my talent and natural artistry. But Hollywood only wants me to show off my bust.”
Jayne Mansfield

“Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.”
Natalie Wood