Actor Quotes · Page 165

Acting has always been a part of my life as far as I can remember.

— Mena Massoud

I never saw the play, although I heard it was good.

— Joseph Force Crater

I'm a grinding actor. That's how I've always viewed myself. You go from one job to the next.

— Anonymous

As an actor, you're constantly looking to be pushed.

— Maisie Williams

I work through the actors, and the more successful I am, the less my work is apparent.

— George Cukor

Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.

— Alfred Hitchcock

You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.

— Vincent Schiavelli

Actors don't make a project; a project makes the actors.

— Bhumi Pednekar

Not to belittle what we do as actors, but my wife Helen is a teacher, and she makes a real difference to…

— Colin O'Donoghue

I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.

— Richard Gere

There's nothing more thrilling than watching great actors say things that you wrote and bring them to life.

— Greta Gerwig

In genre movies, you usually not only hate the characters, you sometimes hate them so much that you hate the actors playing…

— Bobcat Goldthwait

There's beauty in people who reinvent themselves. Actors live a thousand lives, as do hackers ... the personality can play around forever.

— Shia LaBeouf

That said, let me add that Joan and I never want him to be a child actor. We both feel that it…

— Dwayne Hickman

I had three influential teachers. The first was Uta Hagen. The second two, Bobby Lewis and my late husband, Charles Kakatsakis, were…

— June Squibb

I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?

— Ice Cube

As a child, I always wanted to be an actor. But as I grew older, the acting dream kind of faded away,…

— Yami Gautam

With a group of people, a troupe of actors in the theater, you go out on tour, and you're like a traveling…

— Rachel Weisz

I've redone plays of mine and made changes. A play is a living thing, and I'd never say I wouldn't rewrite years…

— Horton Foote

When I was in high school, I was the guy directing plays after class. I started my first theater company at 19,…

— Matthew Lillard

Now the Gielgud Theater is a very famous old theater, because it was originally called the Globe, and the Globe is where…

— Angela Lansbury

I shoot people in a way that makes the audience feel equal to them. And it's hard to express and it's hard…

— Michel Gondry

I'm a big fan of James Garner. That was the other thing. When I heard that I'd get to play his younger…

— Drew Waters

I know it sounds really precious and pretentious, but I can't actually remember deciding to want to be an actor. I just…

— Anya Taylor-Joy

My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.

— Larry Bishop

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

— Martha Graham

I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.

— Barkhad Abdi

I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.

— Julia Stiles

Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.

— Christopher Durang

If I were very handsome, maybe I'd have been an actor.

— George Cukor

Matching character and actor is what a good director does.

— Bruno Dumont

Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.

— Laurence Fox

I was in a lot of school plays, and it became the thing I did.

— Stephen Mangan

As a kid, I wanted to be an actress, but ambition and reality are two different things.

— Tamannaah

It's too theatrical not to express yourself constantly.

— Brian Michael Bendis

As an actor, the first thing you learn in drama school is you never judge.

— Jason Clarke

Alan Ball, he's good at challenging his actors, I'll say that.

— Nelsan Ellis

I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school.

— Celia Imrie

I think an actor should portray all kinds of emotions in films.

— Biju Menon

I always had this dream to act: so much so, even as a child, I used to take part in Ram Leelas.

— Ashish Sharma