Actor Quotes · Page 147

Just hiring a deaf actor is not a job well done.

— Rose Ayling-Ellis

There's something to be said for being given a tremendous amount of freedom as an actor.

— Rosemarie DeWitt

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.

— Johnny Depp

During my 40-something-year acting career, I have always been about the work.

— Paul Raci

“I want to be an actor. I’ve already started taking steps. Yesterday I applied to be a waiter.”

— Jarod Kintz

Acting has been really good me. You end up in some wild places, and I love adventure.

— Martin Compston

[ Chadwick Boseman] is a remarkable actor, and he's a remarkable person.

— Harrison Ford

As an actor I am prepared for every role, that's my profession.

— Neena Gupta

I would audition for all the school plays, and finally, my last year, I got the role as Pinocchio - finally.

— LeToya Luckett

Actors are always looking for the eyes of the other actors because you need help and you need connection.

— Javier Camara

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.

— Meryl Streep

Being an actor, I feel I need to take up challenges and do different roles without thinking about whether the audience will…

— Kratika Sengar

You can get things out of acting with someone a second time around that you don't necessarily get the first time because…

— Rosamund Pike

I used to be like a normal IIT student to be very honest. Then I joined the dramatics society there in IIT…

— Jitendra Kumar

I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman…

— Paul Muni

As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were…

— Hugh Jackman

Painting and photography keep the creative channel open, and for an actor, it's to keep alive, it's to keep awake, it's to…

— Charlotte Rampling

I've seen an awful lot of plays that I'd read before they were put into production and been shocked by what's happened…

— Edward Albee

I would leave school and go to my theater class, and that's when I'd actually sit down and listen. I wouldn't pay…

— Liana Liberato

For me, in my auditioning career and my professional life, since I am kind of a big person and since I have…

— Barrett Wilbert Weed

“If you like to wonder about what you have done in life...know that wondering is about weighing the worth of your actions.…

— Anandputra Ananta

I've reached a stage and an age in my career where I need to do work that keeps me economically and emotionally…

— Victor Banerjee

the one thing I've observed over the years is the best way to get an actor to not want to play a…

— Wes Anderson

Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead…

— Ed Asner

It's a difficult thing as an actor not to repeat one's self.

— Michael Fassbender

I think all actors have a sadomasochistic streak, because acting is kind of brutal, you know.

— Michelle Pfeiffer

And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.

— Matthew Vaughn

That's what theater does, right? You all become this little family.

— Molly Gordon

Martin Scorsese was very much the actor's director. We were all very in awe of Martin Scorsese.

— John Heard

Getting into character to become 'Pretty' Ricky Conlan for the 'Creed' film was surreal.

— Tony Bellew

I’m a comedian who got into movies, so I don’t really think of myself as an actor.

— Eddie Murphy

I'm an actor, I'm not a comedian, I never was a comedian.

— Jonah Hill

That said, I'd love to do a musical, either in film or on stage.

— Reese Witherspoon

I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland.

— Morena Baccarin

Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.

— Lance Reddick

Going to London at 18 to study drama and theatre made me grow up really fast.

— Kalki Koechlin

I think that's really the allure of acting for me. I really want to connect with people.

— Kofi Siriboe

For everybody, the tide comes in, the tide goes out - if you're an actor, particularly.

— Alan Arkin

I don't know how I could have an acting career with this.

— Connie Sellecca

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

— Alicia Vikander