Actor Quotes · Page 138

I moved to New York and couldn't get a job as an actor. And waited tables for so long.

— Casey Nicholaw

I've never been the actor who did one job, and everyone went, 'Wow!'

— William Fichtner

I am the only one in my family to get into acting.

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

It's part of my job as an actor to look after myself. Your appearance is crucial.

— Freddie Fox

I come from the theater, and there is a real collaborative history there.

— John Cameron Mitchell

Some people just can't handle that they will never be a better actor than me

— Zach Braff

If I have anything to offer as an actor, it's only my ability to make the person real.

— Kevin Pollak

I started when I was really young. I did a lot of local theatre. I always enjoyed it.

— Italia Ricci

I did a couple of plays in junior high school, maybe high school, and then I did a play in college.

— Jodie Foster

Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind…

— Vittorio Gassman

As someone of Korean descent, I am certain my road was a bit hard. I have to say anyone who's an aspiring…

— Daniel Dae Kim

For me, honestly, I'm an actor. There's one thing I know how to do - act. And that's all I know how…

— Wilmer Valderrama

When I was 12, I did my first sort of speaking role. But I wouldn't say I had a passion for it…

— Yasmin Paige

Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't…

— Nicholas Meyer

I am very straightforward. If I have something to communicate about dance steps, I just go up to the actor and tell…

— Prabhu Deva

My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby.

— John Abraham

In actor's career, I had a fair amount of denial, which I think is possibly in the genes, where I just couldn't…

— Ann Dowd

As an actor, I'm always critical watching others; it's just the nature of the beast. For me, any performance that doesn't cause…

— David Alan Basche

If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake…

— Ali MacGraw

Every actor has to establish a presence that not only fits the overall needs of the story but allows him to interact…

— Tobey Maguire

My parents always instilled in me this feeling of wanting to be a normal person. I never moved out to L.A. as…

— Joseph Mazzello

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again,…

— Anonymous

It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to…

— Laura Dern

The whole reason I did a bodybuilding show was to see how far I could push my own discipline. It was the…

— Matt McGorry

If you cast the right actor, it not only compliments your work, it elevates your work.

— Del Shores

You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

— Iain Glen

I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my…

— Tammy Blanchard

An actor can be as good as the opportunity that he/she gets.

— Mohnish Bahl

The hard part of not working is occupying the mind. If an actor doesn't work, he grows stale.

— Van Heflin

That's what separates actors - I'll take any risk for a performance.

— Emory Cohen

I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.

— Kevin Bacon

My career has been a roller coaster ride. And every actor experiences that phase.

— Manoj Bajpayee

My goal as an actor is to grow and try different things.

— Dwayne Johnson

Acting became a powerful tool for change. You had to tell stories that were important to you.

— John Kani

That's what I love about acting and love and drama and art: that humanness we all share.

— Sissy Spacek

There are a lot of actors - I'm probably one - who are most at home when they're on stage.

— Ian Mckellen

Theater was something that I always wanted to study.

— Anna Diop

I've never considered myself a comedian. I'm a comedic actor.

— Samuel L. Jackson

To me, acting is reacting. An emotional person will react quickly.

— Dharmendra

I did theater for 15 years, and I spent a lot of time as an understudy.

— Elizabeth Mitchell