Actor Quotes · Page 140

I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form.

— Geoffrey Rush

As a young actor, you hear 'no' every single day for years on end.

— Dave Franco

I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.

— Jeff Daniels

Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.

— Jim Carrey

I want to do more films because if you do a lot of films, you become a better actor.

— Allu Arjun

I have no regrets, except perhaps one: I should have tried harder to be a better actor.

— Joel McCrea

I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.

— Baz Luhrmann

The bottom line is we go to theatre to vicariously spend time with really intense characters.

— John Ross Bowie

Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

— Michael Gambon

Acting is always something I thought I could do, and I thought I would be pretty good at it, but I thought…

— Greg Poehler

The more you live, the better an actor you are, but maybe I'd like to do something else on the side. Something…

— Clemence Poesy

People think acting is just memorizing lines and doing facial expressions. No it's about traveling along a path of discovery, intention and…

— Malik Yoba

Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality.

— Lee Strasberg

The person you are is a thousand times more interesting than the best actor you could ever hope to be.

— Constantin Stanislavski

Actors should remember they are public servants, really, and depend on the response of the people. And the public can be so…

— Agnes Moorehead

I think that the reason I became an actor, probably, underneath it, was that I spent my life acting normal.

— Dash Mihok

I know an actor who would play one type of part but could never get cast as tough. Once he got cast…

— Paul Dano

This whole celebrity racket, it's not really my bag. I don't really do that stuff, and I am not looking to get…

— John C. Reilly

I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the…

— Sean Penn

My father was an actor. Both of my older brothers are actors. My younger sister is an actress. For me, that's my…

— Johnny Flynn

To start, I wasn't really interested in acting at all, and I didn't make much impact. The first play I was in…

— Aidan Gillen

There was all this talk when Obama got elected about how we were living in a postracial world. But we're not. Until…

— David Henry Hwang

Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken.…

— Sam Shepard

Upon graduating from my acting program at The Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts in Santa Maria, CA, I went to my first…

— Vincent Rodriguez III

Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor.

— Katharine Hepburn

Auditioning for something you already know and love is terrifying.

— Emily Berrington

When I was 8 years old, I knew what I was going to be—an actress.

— Hattie McDaniel

Broadway! Broad-way! I don't aspire to the middle. I aspire to the tip-tip-top of it all.

— Billy Porter

I think Matthew Rhys is great. I think he's a phenomenal actor.

— Julia Garner

My background is in psychology and I'm also a stage actor. That's my background.

— Tommy Wiseau

I started doing theatre more seriously in college.

— Sayani Gupta

Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.

— Gene Hackman

I'd rather be a working actor and not hiding anything in my personal life.

— Jonathan Groff

Improv acting is not just saying the lines but connecting with the other actor.

— Matt Besser

Because actors don't get to pick movies; movies pick the actors.

— Benicio Del Toro

Like a dog, a playwright lives in an eternal present and a play is never closed.

— John Guare

One needs to be super intelligent and have an above-average IQ to be able to work in movies.

— R. Madhavan

I'm sure no one really wants to think of themselves as a child actor.

— Timothee Chalamet

I didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor.

— Jodie Foster

Be in the moment as an actor and as a human being, and you're going to be happy.

— Mark Webber