Actor Quotes · Page 168

A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.

— Helena Bonham Carter

I'm not a natural-born actor. So it's been a very slow learning curve for me.

— John Cho

But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

I enjoy working with actors so much and having the chance to be surprised by them.

— Diego Luna

When I first started acting, everyone in my family did not want me to act.

— Billie Lourd

Both my parents are actors, in very different ways.

— Linus Roache

The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.

— Matthew Macfadyen

Even actors are human beings, so we have issues to deal with - physical, emotional, and mental.

— Arjun Kapoor

If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies.

— Robert Duvall

As an actor, I get into the mind space of many women and I don't have to take many births for that.

— Supriya Pathak

Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the…

— Martin Scorsese

In many ways, acting is really like a science to me to figure out the human behavior of any character that I'm…

— Pauley Perrette

I think any good standup or actor is part philosopher, part psychologist and sociologist, because you're constantly recreating behaviors.

— Baron Vaughn

I wasn't really happy in school and didn't really have anything else going for me; I wasn't really good at anything. Drama…

— Will Poulter

I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff. So, getting to work with those…

— Alden Ehrenreich

Psychodrama' is a form of therapy and it is just expressing how you feel in whatever way is the most creative to…

— Santan Dave

Ranbir is a very intelligent actor and he is one of my favorite actor in the present generation. He is very good…

— Randhir Kapoor

My memoir is being published by Beaufort Books and will be available fall of 2015. It's about my unusual life as a…

— Lisa Jakub

As actors we are often seen well-dressed and well-behaved in the public eye but we are humans at the end of the…

— Jasmin Bhasin

Being a showrunner meant writing and producing a television show, period, but with 'Lost,' suddenly it became part of the job to…

— Carlton Cuse

I know what it's like to audition, so it's important that everybody who auditions, even if I know right off they're not…

— John Cameron Mitchell

You have to put your ego aside as an actor. Or you're using your ego to tell the story. Your body is…

— Juliette Binoche

Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a…

— Thomas Merton

The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.

— Henry Cavill

When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.

— Olivia Wilde

My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.

— Sam Robards

Acting is a career where you keep learning with every film you do.

— Ileana D'Cruz

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.

— Conrad Veidt

When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.

— Edward Albee

Like my father, like most actors, I was a pretty ambitious guy.

— Michael Douglas

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

— Benjamin Franklin

As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure.

— Taylor Sheridan

I'm an actor who directs. Probably always will be.

— Clark Johnson

I am still a villager who fell in love with acting.

— Pankaj Tripathi

As actors, you become an expert at starting over.

— Lupita Nyong'o

“[ On his Emmy win ] I thought ‘ah, very, very nice’ and then I went to sleep.”

— Martin Freeman

I expected that most of my career would be in dramatic acting. My hero was James Dean.

— Jim Carrey

Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

— James Dean

Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.

— Harry Morgan