Actor Quotes · Page 109

I'd always really wanted to act; but the modelling contracts came more easily.

— Jamie Dornan

Actors require flexibility, a kind of openness and readiness to leave their comfort zone.

— Atul Kulkarni

As an actor you have to be vulnerable or you're just not going to cut it.

— Asher Keddie

I usually prefer casting actors from our own industry.

— Vignesh Shivan

Inevitably, every part an actor plays contains some of himself.

— David Suchet

There's no one more willing to do something than an actor when it comes to perfecting a scene.

— Eric Braeden

Before marriage acting was my livelihood, but now it has become my passion.

— Navya Nair

I'm not an actor. I can show up for friends and improvise a little bit, but I'm not an actor.

— Robert Downey, Sr

American naturalism is what my indulgent actor side loves: a bit of Tennessee Williams, a bit of Clifford Odets, August Wilson -…

— Emilia Clarke

Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do…

— Viggo Mortensen

But on stage you're able to just take the character from one point to the end and it's a fluid, organic piece.…

— Renee O'Connor

I don't think the choice of launching Sunny Leone as an actor in Hindi cinema was that radical a decision.

— Mahesh Bhatt

I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to…

— Lisa Kudrow

I grew up in Summerhill in Dublin's inner city, and I came across an open audition, and they were looking for inner…

— Barry Keoghan

Nearly always when actors are approached by the beauticians, they try to avoid the dabs that the beauticians put on their faces.…

— Quentin Crisp

Growing up I wanted to be a mixture of Audrey Hepburn and Lucille Ball. Apparently I told my mum when I was…

— Dianna Agron

Invest in yourself. It's like being a boxer, you've got to be in training so that when the bell rings, you get…

— Karl Urban

Most actors here go to the West Coast; I ended up going to Ireland. My buddies who left drama school, they had…

— Brian F. O'Byrne

Real quality in roles is very hard to come by. Any actor or actress will tell you that. Great movies are hard…

— Holly Hunter

Acting can be a difficult business. When I was younger, if my mates were doing better than me, I might be a…

— Max Beesley

The reason I've never gone for pilot season even as a younger actor, and wouldn't entertain that sort of thing now, is…

— Martin Freeman

I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the…

— Enrico Colantoni

Sometimes an actor performs a character, but sometimes an actor just performs. With writing, I don't think it's performing a character, really,…

— Joan Didion

THEATRE HAS THE POWER TO MOVE, INSPIRE, TRANSFORM AND EDUCATE IN WAYS THAT NO OTHER ART FORM CAN. THEATRE REFLECTS BOTH THE…

— Irina Bokova

I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.

— Damian Lewis

As an actor, you get humbled all the time. Everyone is a critic.

— Joe Regalbuto

The acting world is a humbling experience, I find.

— Sharlto Copley

Look, I'm an actor, I'm not a politician. I'm not a statistician. I'm not a legislator.

— Tom Hanks

I may be a B-movie star, but I work. I'm an actor.

— Robert Englund

In theatre, you learn the story is more important than the actor.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

Acting in 'Solo' has truly been a wonderful and blissful journey for me.

— Neha Sharma

As I got older, I auditioned for drama school and shocked myself by getting in.

— Tuppence Middleton

I didn't have any desire to be an actor until right before I did it.

— Jamie Sives

Have you heard anything useful come out of an actor's mouth lately?

— Bruce Willis

My directors feel that, because of my height, I look better in action sequences.

— Varun Tej

I'd like to be an actress when I'm older. I sometimes do improv. I used to do it with my dad.

— Paris Jackson

I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.

— Ursula Andress

Crawling into someone's skin is what acting is all about.

— Ted Cassidy

It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away.

— Nicole Kidman

“You may play well or you may play badly; the important thing is that you should play truly.”

— Mikhail Shchepkin