Actor Quotes · Page 128

I never wanted to lose out on an acting job and wonder if I hadn't been trained enough.

— David Alan Grier

I never went to auditions or screen tests. I just got cast.

— Bob Christo

My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.

— Jeff Bridges

I'm not sure that my upbringing has in itself informed my acting choices.

— Morgan Freeman

I've always been able to work. I think it's an actor's obligation to keep working if you can.

— Adam West

Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.

— Damian Lewis

I didn't originally want to be an actor. I didn't know what I wanted to be.

— Donal Logue

Good theater should always send people away feeling changed.

— Suzanne Farrell

I'm sure my mum was a huge influence on my wanting to be an actress: just seeing her doing it, seeing her…

— Hattie Morahan

As actors, you do have to be aware of your audience. You can't act in a vacuum, even if that audience isn't…

— Tom Irwin

During my adolescent years, I watched a lot of theatre. I had the habit of enacting every scene I saw in front…

— Saswata Chatterjee

A lot of people have asked whether acting is in my genes. I don't know if anyone is born to act. And…

— Laura Dern

When you feel good about the work you're doing, that's what's important, not the budget or anything like that. If you're happy…

— Chazz Palminteri

And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you…

— Olivier Martinez

Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in…

— Lee Pace

I go to the theater because I need help dealing with my life; I want to see the greatest questions addressed. I…

— Ellen McLaughlin

Great storytellers in the past would go to an unknown land and return to tell the stories they've found. Those were also…

— Robert Davi

Life as a poet and actor truly became full circle as I stood on stage as host of 'Verses & Flow' and…

— Omari Hardwick

It takes awhile for writers to get to know actors rhythms, not just as actors, but what they bring to the characters.…

— Logan Marshall-Green

Everybody in Los Angeles is an actor, or they think they are, or they want to be. They're looking for that shot.…

— Paul Raci

The most starstruck I've been is when I met Sol Campbell when he was a Tottenham Hotspur player. I don't get starstruck…

— Roger Lloyd-Pack

Every audition is different, but I get incredibly nervous and insecure and worked up for however long I have to prep -…

— Nina Arianda

It would be a dream to do a film with Pedro Almodovar and that whole crew of Spaniards. There's this Argentinian actor…

— Julie Gonzalo

I've been acting since I was six. I actually played a boy when I was six in 'Tommy.' I played Tommy and…

— JoJo

The great thing as an actor is that I don't know what my agent is going to call me with next.

— Matthew Lewis

WHY is the most important word in an actor's vocabulary.

— Sanford Meisner

I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star.

— Sherry Stringfield

Doing Shakespeare certainly makes you a better actor.

— James Avery

Acting was just a hobby; I never needed butter from it.

— Nana Patekar

I like being employed, you know. That's my favorite kind of acting.

— John C. Reilly

It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.

— Irrfan Khan

I think that the worst thing as an actor is to fall into a monotony with characters.

— Jordan Gavaris

No, there's other actor who could play The Clown in Slipknot.

— Shawn Crahan

I think every actor should be always grateful when they work.

— Robert Knepper

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

— Jim Henson

I have grown as an actor in all these years by doing multiple projects.

— Pratik Gandhi

It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.

— Miranda Otto

Vijay Mallya is a star, not an actor. Anybody who lives a lifestyle of that kind, is a star.

— Kay Kay Menon

By nature of the job, most actors are striking, remarkable, and alpha.

— Peter Morgan

Most parts that can be played by one actor can equally well be played by another, but not this.

— Kenneth More