Actor Quotes · Page 102

When I'm not acting, I don't feel like an actor.

— Maxine Peake

I'm a better actor because I'm a mother, I think.

— Kristin Lehman

Focus on making you the best you can be as an actor, and follow your own path.

— Craig Sheffer

Acting was the first thing that obsessed me when I was 8-9 years old.

— Deepti Naval

I started out as a music teacher; I never planned on becoming an actress.

— Li Bingbing

I think to be a good actor you need either a good experience of life or education, or both.

— Honeysuckle Weeks

I started acting when I was seven, so I've read my share.

— Ari Graynor

There are so many things that go into casting that you just never know.

— Johnathon Schaech

I now hate actors that blink too much on screen. When people blink, I turn the movie off. So I don't blink…

— Craig Roberts

After a hit show is over, you soon realize this is a very tough business ... brutally tough. But I'm a better…

— Jack Coleman

Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my…

— Louise Brown

Sometimes you see a movie and you can really feel that it's an actor putting in a performance. Someone said 'cut' and…

— Andrew Dominik

One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have.

— Allison Mack

I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like…

— Queen Latifah

I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of…

— Maggie Smith

I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you…

— Natalie Portman

I think he [Leonardo DiCaprio] is a terrific actor. And I've - I've been rooting and voting for him since "Gilbert Grape."…

— Maggie Smith

As an actor, I think sort of relish the chance to take a leap and sort of put yourself out there. You…

— Daniel Radcliffe

What's funny is my mom took me to the theater for the first time when I was six years old, and I…

— Dana Davis

My journey has been beautiful, more than what I could ask for. Of course there have been ups and downs but I've…

— Rhea Chakraborty

I really don't act. I just live what George and I are doing. It has to make some sort of sense to…

— Gracie Allen

I saw the kid playing Simba on stage and I thought, 'I can do that, nothing special there,' and then two weeks…

— Raymond Ablack

I think the reason you use an actor is if they are right for the role. Most of the high-profile stars tend…

— Neill Blomkamp

Each actor is different and not everyone is looking for the same thing. For instance, I have never worried that people have…

— Ayesha Takia

I can never forget my first film - it was instrumental in me becoming an actor.

— Mohanlal

Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I grew up doing a lot of theater - acting and making sets and costumes.

— Robert Eggers

My father was an actor, and we have the most important theatre company in Montreal.

— Gilles Duceppe

I have a major love for musical theatre, including a lot of stuff I don't get to do very often.

— Lindsay Mendez

There's a personal side to me of challenges as an actor that I like to take on myself.

— Ray Liotta

Through my 20s, acting was the be all and end all, and I ended up feeling strung out.

— Asher Keddie

Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

Theatre is my first love, simply because I started out with theatre.

— Rohini Hattangadi

I love the Olivier. It's a great space for me because I'm a big actor.

— Paterson Joseph

I definitely want to be acting and I'm really happy that I found the opportunity to do it.

— Kate Nash

I always felt like a successful actor when I got a job.

— Ann Dowd

Acting is in my genes, since my father late Pandit Dinanath Mangeshkar was an actor.

— Asha Bhosle

As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention.

— Yasmine Bleeth

The path that I have chosen for myself, as an actor, is not a conventional one.

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.

— Dan Byrd