Actor Quotes · Page 166

Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.

— Vera Farmiga

The image of an actor plays a huge role in deciding if he or she can experiment with roles.

— Radhika Apte

Good films not only help me grow as an actor but as a human being.

— Vicky Kaushal

As an actor, you want to do your best but not overshine the film. No actor is above the film.

— Anushka Sharma

It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.

— Natalie Dormer

I feel like being on Broadway will convince my mother that my theater degree was worth it.

— Alton Brown

I've got plenty of advice from a number of other actors. Me? I don't give advice.

— Kevin Dillon

I do work on stage as an actor. I do films as well. Television, I haven't done much.

— Neeraj Kabi

I saw my first Broadway show when I was 10 years old. I saw 'Big: The Musical' and I remember going out…

— Erich Bergen

The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role -- unless you're just vain about celebrity.…

— Jonny Lee Miller

You always hear about the disempowered actor, their fate in other people's hands. It's just really wonderful to experience it the other…

— Elizabeth Marvel

I come from the theatre; my bones are in the theatre. It's as natural as breathing to want to be in the…

— Kenneth Branagh

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

Acting is perception, and as long as I'm honest with myself in my work, someone will appreciate it.

— Riley Smith

I'm an American actor. I work with my clothes on. I have to. Riding a horse can be pretty tough on your…

— John Wayne

I come from the theater and you normally have four or five weeks to prepare. For me, the fun of the job…

— Kieran Bew

I was very frustrated, in a physical sense, by people seeing me in a way that I wasn't. And I was beginning…

— Rufus Sewell

With every episodic, there's a learning curve where writers try to find the voice of the characters by way of the actors.…

— Sasha Roiz

I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the…

— Michael York

As an actor, you do feel very powerless... you are at the whim of the agent who submits you for a project,…

— Donna Lynne Champlin

It was only after university that I said to myself that I had to take the risk and have a serious go…

— Felicity Jones

That's always my ambition is to create a character out of what will help tell the story. I've never been an actor…

— Harrison Ford

Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's…

— Mara Wilson

I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do…

— Randy Harrison

I wanted to be a jobbing actor who went from play to play. That was the plan.

— Aimee Lou Wood

Being an actor is like being a student, and I plan to get top grades.

— Shweta Tripathi

I learned a lot about acting from the people I worked with.

— Vincent Kartheiser

I don't really create things externally; I'm not that kind of actor.

— Benedict Samuel

There's no royalty in America, so people deify actors.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he's a genius.

— Simon Cowell

I was so young in 'Bring It On!' I didn't know what I didn't know.

— Taylor Louderman

Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.

— Diane Kruger

Working in 'Deadpool' was a really big change for me as an actor.

— Karan Soni

Keanu Reeves is, like, the worst actor I've ever seen. I can't believe he's a movie star.

— Juliana Hatfield

No matter how good of an actor I am, I can't un-act having cerebral palsy.

— Josh Blue

“all he needed to act. One man down. Then two. The daggers silent”

— Melina Marchetta

If you're a 'character actor,' you get hired to play baddies a lot.

— Ben Mendelsohn

I thought I would be a dramatic actor - everyone starts that way.

— Adam Scott

It took a lot to get attention in my family. No wonder I'm an actress.

— Elisabeth Shue

Growing up as a child actress, I was tutored on movie and TV sets.

— Kyle Richards