Actor Quotes - page 100

My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family. (Micky Dolenz)
I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier. View quote
Miguel Ferrer
As an actor, you just want to continue to work on things that you like. You can be in this business a long time and consistently working and just be totally artistically unfulfilled. View quote
Mike Colter
As an actor, you're trying to capture the nuances of real life, but voice work is almost over-acting. View quote
Mike Colter
I've always wanted to be on a show that's well respected and had critical acclaim and that people like to watch, and at the same time find something that, for me, as an actor, is interesting and challenging. View quote
Mike Colter
I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films. View quote
Mike Leigh
I definitely believe in the energy of the set and the energy of the actor, way more than your written word. View quote
Mike Mills
I have a particular love of an actor that I did work with, oddly, in 'Donnie Brasco,' who has since become a wonderful talent: Paul Giamatti. I would love to do a whole movie with Paul Giamatti. View quote
Mike Newell
In L.A. everyone is an actor. In Texas, everyone's a musician. View quote
Minka Kelly
You've got to understand that in Bollywood, every actor is an instrument, and yet a human being. They come to the set with a set agenda, believing, 'This is who I am, this is what I want, and no, I am not going to become that character you want me to.' View quote
Mira Nair
Everybody in L.A. wants to be an actor. I just wish I could meet somebody who doesn't act or sing. (Miranda Cosgrove)
It's the idea that when you say 'actress', people think of an airy, floaty, no-brain person, which of course you can't be if you are an actor. It is an unfortunate word, which is why, for a time, I hung on to 'actor', because it just seemed more workmanlike, you know, like you say 'woman doctor' not 'doctoress'. View quote
Miranda Richardson
I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements. View quote
Mireille Enos
People say to me, 'Oh, being a mother must make you a better actor,' and I think, 'Well, I never sleep, I have very little time to think about anything except when I'm actually there.' I wonder whether that makes me a better actor. I think it must on some level. View quote
Mireille Enos
I don't think anybody planned for me to be an actor. I didn't. I didn't know this was what I was going to do. View quote
Missy Peregrym
I came into the industry as an actor. And moved on to become a star with the help of my dancing skills. View quote
Mithun Chakraborty
Not a lot of people make that transition from child actor to bigger, better roles. View quote
Moises Arias
I'm probably an actor that tends to, instead of putting things on, think about it more in terms of taking away what's not in the character, until I'm left with what is. If that makes sense. That's probably a particularly American way of working, but maybe not. The end of any movie is a readjustment. View quote
Molly Parker
I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor. View quote
Molly Parker
I never wanted to be an actor. View quote
Moon Bloodgood
I try to be a good, diligent actor. (Moon Bloodgood)
I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland.' View quote
Morena Baccarin
Life as an actor has toughened me up, and I've learned that you shouldn't take things too personally. Someone once said that to do this job you need talent, luck and a thick skin - which is so true. View quote
Marc Warren
I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free. View quote
Nat Wolff
Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time. View quote
Nathan Fillion