Top Actors Quotes
I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.
Ryan Phillippe
I'm not the sexiest thing in the world, I feel actors who have to 'play' sexy lose all their sex appeal. When they start with the tongue and the heavy lids, it looks so ridiculous. I think you just have to be yourself.
Stephanie Zimbalist
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
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I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.
Ryan Phillippe 
78% of people like this quote
I'm not the sexiest thing in the world, I feel actors who have to 'play' sexy lose all their sex appeal. When they start with the tongue and the heavy lids, it looks so ridiculous. I think you just have to be yourself.
Stephanie Zimbalist
78% of people like this quote
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
73% of people like this quote
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
72% of people like this quote
I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company.
Tony Randall
68% of people like this quote
In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals.
John Ratzenberger
67% of people like this quote
I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
Alfred Hitchcock
66% of people like this quote
It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.
Gene Tierney
65% of people like this quote
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