Actor Quotes · Page 125

I don't really consider myself an actor, and I don't know if I'm a comedian.

— Tom Green

“Fill in the blanks, you’d have a novel; keep it short and it’s a play by Beckett.”

— Stephen Dobyns

I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think.

— Lauren Bacall

The hardest part when I decided to move into acting was trusting I'd made the right decision.

— Caitriona Balfe

A good place to start initially would be school plays.

— Sara Gilbert

As an actor, I will work - whether it is in a Malayalam, Telugu or any film.

— Dino Morea

I wanted to be an actor. Music was a side project.

— Kyle Gass

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.

— Cyril Cusack

Directors have so much else to do besides tell actors what to do. There are so many issues and problems.

— Michael Douglas

As a nonbinary person starting out as an actor, I feared there wasn't space for me in the mainstream industry.

— Emma D'Arcy

I think ever since I was a kid I knew subconsciously that I wanted to be an actor. I would walk around…

— Kelly Blatz

Actors, you kind of have these ebbs and flows. These moments where you're in your glory - where you're really cracking -…

— Mark Ruffalo

I carried on acting during school holidays and was all set to go to drama school when I was offered my first…

— Gina Bellman

When are we going to stop labeling everyone? How many times have I been referred to as 'out gay actor?' Do we…

— Bryan Batt

I didn't graduate. I was doing theater in Michigan the summer after my junior year and just moved on to New York.

— John Wesley Shipp

“ But what else can that hypothetical actor-filmmaker do? How does he find meaningful human connection in a world of people who…

— Catherine Lacey

For me, obviously anything that reduces the amount of acting required and makes the process more of an experience, rather than having…

— Charlie Hunnam

I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above working…

— Gerard Butler

It would be easy to blame Hollywood to say that I was typed and forced to play the same role over and…

— Sal Mineo

What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to…

— Tennessee Williams

An actor's career doesn't feel like just one career to me. It feels like about five or six. Because every six or…

— Ron Livingston

Passion is the thing that sustains you in acting. If you're doing it for fame and money, don't even bother because it…

— Scott Patterson

I don't have actors as friends. There's no actor who's my 3 A.M. friend. There are a couple of musicians whom I…

— Pritam Chakraborty

I'm not in any rush to get anywhere. There's a pressure on actors to get somewhere before it's over. But everyone wants…

— Ruth Negga

I got into acting for the different scenarios and roles and meeting different people.

— Rob James-Collier

I stopped modeling so I could go to drama school at the William Esper Studio. It's Meisner.

— Laura Harrier

“Great acting is as much about the choices a performer makes as it is about their ability.”

— Stewart Stafford

I'd like more kids to go and see theatre because it really is amazing.

— Charlie Rowe

I think, often, child actors are, like, overlooked a little bit.

— Sadie Sink

And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.

— Jeff Daniels

I never wanted to be an actor. I got stuck in it and kind of liked what I was doing.

— James Garner

In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.

— Ryan Gosling

Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess.

— Melissa Leo

I love acting, but I want to explore other things.

— Hank Azaria

I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.

— Victor Mature

An actor can spew out thoughts, but they're not all gold.

— Martin Short

It is essential to understand your fellow actors in order to naturally fit in with them.

— Lee Je-hoon

The reason why I wanted to be an actor was to understand different people and cultures.

— Ishaan Khatter

I'm a Jack of all trades character actor, really.

— Steffan Rhodri

I was quite a snob when I was a theatre actor earlier in my career.

— Robert Englund