Actor Quotes · Page 149

I started out as a music teacher; I never planned on becoming an actress.

— Li Bingbing

Focus on making you the best you can be as an actor, and follow your own path.

— Craig Sheffer

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

— Quentin Tarantino

I talked to everyone about the project: actors and extras, members of the crew and passers by.

— James D'arcy

There's very little I miss about acting since retiring.

— Brenda Fricker

Acting is not very good for relationships - but very good for when they are over.

— Hugh Dancy

Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.

— Marlon Brando

When I left school I did far more theatre than anything else and it was exciting.

— Jonathan Bailey

My mother wanted to be an actress. She wanted to follow her dreams, and she never really got a chance to do…

— Mike Colter

I think that when I'm an actor, I get hired, and you say jump three inches, I'll jump three inches. I just…

— Adina Porter

Books and theater were the way I understood the world and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how…

— Greta Gerwig

Before I got into acting, I was always interested in psychology, which I think is very common with a lot of actors…

— Megan Park

I think there are a lot of other actors that are just talented, it's just about this opportunity - it's just about…

— Nia Long

I've never been an actor on Broadway, but it feels like you're on a stage when you play at Yankee Stadium. And…

— Derek Jeter

Every actor will tell you it's so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex…

— Michael Vartan

I get on with actors, and when I'm doing a theatre show, it's great being with them all the time. But we're…

— Phil Daniels

In my game, you get brokenhearted a bit. You do a play, get a bad review in the papers... actors are sensitive;…

— Phil Daniels

Like AEW, it kind of feels like they're treating you like a professional athlete, and Lucha Underground is like a lot of…

— Brian Cage

To be able to explore the genre of the musical is nice. It was great to be able to sing professionally, for…

— Penelope Cruz

For the longest time, I was always like a guy that people would think they went to high school with. They'd be…

— Chris Messina

When I started to trust myself to be an actor, and to be considered that way and consider myself, that is when…

— Zoe Bell

The truth is, the personal ends up becoming part of your professional. As an actor, much of your work happens at home…

— Terrence Howard

“The scholar explained, very neatly, that a play might well have something interesting about it, but no literary value. He demonstrated, without…

— Voltaire

You know, the hard thing about audiences not liking what a character does is that they sometimes take it out on the…

— Linda Cardellini

Every actor is great in his own right but certain actors suit certain roles.

— Rajkumar Hirani

When I entered in the industry, I was appreciated for my acting skills.

— Himani Shivpuri

There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle.

— Wole Soyinka

There are always fresh problems for an actor to solve.

— Van Heflin

There are those who have a knowledge and passion for the theatre, and those who don't.

— Diana Rigg

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

— Enid Bagnold

I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.

— Jack Nicholson

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

— Marcello Mastroianni

It was watching Franco's 'Romeo and Juliet' at the age of 15 that first made me want to act.

— Liza Tarbuck

As a model you do play a certain role and you know as an actor you play another role.

— Gemma Ward

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I'd be acting in movies.

— Mathieu Amalric

Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.

— Amy Poehler

When I left Oxford, I knew I wanted to act, but I was unsure how to go about it.

— Eve Best

Those years between drama school and getting onto the stand-up circuit were pretty lean.

— Graham Norton

I would never assume to tell another actor how to do his job!

— Joseph Morgan

Acting helps to discover an unknown side of yourself.

— Chef Damu