Actor Quotes · Page 126

To do comedy, you have to be a pretty good actor to start with.

— Robert Webb

As an actor, you need to smile all the time, which is not easy.

— Rashami Desai

Much like Tim Minchin, I'd love to write and appear in a West End Musical. That's the dream.

— Rachel Parris

Once you're on the set and shooting, it's all just cinema. You have actors and cameras.

— Philippe Falardeau

When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.

— Julia Barr

Once I know an actor suits a character, it seals the deal.

— Rockline Venkatesh

I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.

— Carl Lewis

When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.

— Fatima Sana Shaikh

I've worked opposite so many male actors whose egos have been so delicate that it was just so hard to do the…

— Andrea Riseborough

Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.

— John Barrymore

If you're a serious actor, it's when you know you're going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.

— Rowan Atkinson

I'd seen Titus Welliver in a few shows and felt he had some inner demons in his portrayals, as does Harry Bosch.

— Michael Connelly

I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my…

— Zooey Deschanel

Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.

— Thornton Wilder

That's always the thing about biopics, you are stepping on moments in someone's life where you're making public something that is private.

— Naomi Ackie

I was in eighth grade when I did my first Junior Theatre show. I was in 'Annie Get Your Gun' as a…

— Casey Nicholaw

When I started acting, I thought if I got one or two jobs a year I'd be lucky. So yeah, my career…

— James McAvoy

When you're acting, everything is there around you, you just have to believe that it's real. When you're standing there with a…

— Jim Sturgess

JR was a 1-dimensional, evil character. JR was multi-dimensional, and Larry Hagman is probably one of the greatest actors that we have.…

— Charlene Tilton

There are actors who make no decisions about how to play something until they're in the moment, looking into their scene partner's…

— Anthony Heald

Theater is such an absurd thing. It should be made fun of. But it's also produced some of the most beautiful things…

— Molly Gordon

On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts…

— Anthony Powell

There's a difference between knowing what to do when you're rehearsing it, and being able to do it once you're adrenalized and…

— Antony Starr

I used to work in a clothes store, played cricket for money, did photo shoots. It was that period of struggle which…

— Sudeep

I guess I became an actress because I didn't want to be myself.

— Jean Arthur

Working with actors is something I've never done before. I find it tremendous. It's hard work.

— Anton Corbijn

I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves

— Charlotte Rampling

If there is one thing I object to, it's actors talking about how tough their jobs are.

— Kevin Spacey

That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.

— Morgan Freeman

As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

As an actor, you need that constant change, or things will get stale.

— Tyler Posey

Rumours are a part and parcel of being an actor, and I am okay with that.

— Uday Kiran

Every actor - every human being - looks for security.

— Lorne Greene

Every actor comes with their own experience, method, methodology.

— Todd Haynes

When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play.

— Judd Nelson

Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure.

— Clint Eastwood

I was a drama-class nerd. I did whatever school production we put on.

— Jessica Pare

Yes, I am a very greedy actor. I love acting, and I want to do all kinds of roles.

— Bhumi Pednekar

I'd always wanted to try my hand at every bit of the acting field.

— Linda Cardellini

I am not a heroine, I am an actor, and that's why I don't think there is any expiry to me.

— Shweta Tripathi