The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
Michael Caine

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
Sam Rayburn

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.
Puff Daddy

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.
Patrick Warburton

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.
Griffin Dunne

As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, "This is what I love doing, and I hope I'm going to be able to do it forever."
Tom Cruise

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
Ice T

As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.
Kevin Bacon

I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.
Kevin Bacon

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.
George Clooney

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
Ralph Fiennes

I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.
Tim Robbins

Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
Barbra Streisand

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.
John Ford

As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I would get accosted by these guys begging me to play. They just want to take my money. They see me, think "actor" and see some easy money.
Matt Damon

There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
Bela Lugosi

Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself.
Sarah Michelle Gellar

One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.
Sam Mendes

I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was.
Bill Murray

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
Vincent D'Onofrio