Dakota Fanning

I don't know whether it's audiences or filmmakers who want characters to be likable today, but I don't think actors are afraid of their characters being unlikable.

American Actress

Viola Davis

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

Paul Walker

I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too.

American Actor

Tom Holland

I think, from every actor I've ever spoken to, they say the biggest thing they regret from life is not finishing school.

English Actor

Bette Davis

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

Clint Eastwood

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

Chadwick Boseman

One of the first things I was taught as an actor was, 'Don't judge the character.

Robin Williams

I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.

American Comedian

Alan Rickman

Actors are actually very supportive of each other.

British Actor

Eleanor Roosevelt

Actors are one family over the entire world.

American First Lady

The word 'actor' can refer to both men and women, though 'actress' is used for women too.

Gender Neutral

Being an actor is often associated with fame and glamour, especially in Hollywood.

Cultural Prestige

Actors may play diverse roles, from heroes to villains, and must adapt their performance.

Versatile Roles

The term 'actor' is formal in legal context, referring to parties in a lawsuit.

Legal Context

In legal terminology, 'actor' does not imply guilt or innocence, simply involvement.

Neutral Term

Sometimes, legal 'actors' can be organizations or government entities, not just individuals.

Beyond People

In computing, 'actor' refers to a component that performs actions within a system architecture.

Technical Systems

When talking about computing, 'actor' does not refer to a person but to a software entity.

Not Human

An actor in computing often operates independently, reacting to messages or changes in data.

Autonomous Role

 It's been said that iambic pentameter was easy for his actors to memorize and for the audience to understand because it's naturally suited to the English language. But there might be another reason. The next time you're in a heightened emotional situation, like the ones that make Shakespeare's characters burst into verse,

Why Shakespeare loved...

 Can you make out who it is? That looks like Thespis. It seems he's changing his mask, and taking on the role of another character. Incredible. Surely, Thespis will go down in history as the very first actor. He has changed the face of theater forever. And that was just the warm-up act.

The battle of the Greek...

 it's rare that your brain can override it even at times when danger isn't really present like in this unique experiment we've designed to test fight-or-flight responses we brought in a team of makeup artists to transform our actor into an inanimate statue

Statue Trick PIPE Brain...

 to now have a life span of forever. Jennifer Lawrence and several other actors had their iCloud accounts hacked, and private, intimate, nude photos were plastered across the internet without their permission. One gossip website had over five million hits

The price of shame PIPE...

 and said I don't look like I have any experience to be working in this business. And I said to him, "Listen, punk fool, you're a failed actor who became an agent, and you know why you failed as an actor? Because people like me took your job.

Lemon Andersen performs...

 this sounds like the it gets better we cannot forget about the road in front of us I'm not acting for this to be a sad story I'm actually you to see someone standing here and they're paying and their truth and actors that what can you

Walking in your truth as...

 So, the success of the Tele-Actor that night was due to the fact that she was a wonderful actor. She knew when to trust her instincts. And so that project taught me another lesson about life, which is that, when in doubt, improvise.

Ken Goldberg: 4 lessons...

 the key to my success as an actor and my progress as a person has been the very lack of self that used to make me feel so anxious and insecure. I always wondered why I could feel others' pain so deeply,

Embracing otherness,...

 the tracking system you know what they're like and you feel that you feel like an actor with a hand side you know Steven hi there very long life it's like some old friend failure I it's not I'll

Top 5 Nail-Biting...

 a hard shell and now within the dark uterus it waits like an actor in the wings ready to make its appearance on life's stage but which end will emerge first from the