Actor Quotes · Page 169

Casting is what I put at the top of the heap in importance to any show that I do.

— Dan Schneider

I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.

— Vera Farmiga

Matt Bomer and I went to Carnegie Mellon for drama together.

— Joe Manganiello

My love for acting began when I thought I can do it.

— Rohit Saraf

I play a guy who is 40. And I am a very good actor, because I'm 41.

— Matthew Perry

What I love is acting, and the technical stuff does tend to slow things down.

— Anna Popplewell

I remember seeing 'Chicago' and 'Legally Blonde' and waiting by the stage door.

— Kirstin Maldonado

As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.

— Michelle Fairley

Acting is a lifelong love affair, and I am passionate and respect my craft to the utmost degree, which gives me the…

— Sebastian Roche

A lot of actors like to get themselves worked up, and I think from what I saw from Mr. Redford, he goes…

— Wes Bentley

I have a confession. I don't enjoy animation. I have no idea why because I absolutely adore doing voiceovers. I think part…

— Toyah Willcox

It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like…

— Bill Nighy

I don't know which other actor has done as many hot scenes as I have. I pretty much have the monopoly in…

— Emraan Hashmi

There's also been a time when I had become the highest paid TV actor of all time. I could have stayed in…

— Gurmeet Choudhary

Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.

— Marlon Brando

I am a director's actor. It is a director's medium, definitely. That doesn't mean I stop using my head.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

I try to be green as much as I can and it's hard. I feel like I'm never doing enough. [...] For…

— Zac Efron

I started acting, when I was 15, in commercials and guest roles. I was definitely a working actor, so I was thankful…

— Evan Peters

I'm confident about my stint with politics. But I won't leave acting, one, because it brings me my daily bread, and second,…

— Vishwajeet Pradhan

If it wasn't for Undeclared I would have quit acting. At 17, I had, like, the worst year in my career, all…

— Jay Baruchel

We must believe in a sense of life renewed by the theater, a sense of life in which man fearlessly makes himself…

— Antonin Artaud

My strongest quality as an actor is taking direction. I will give my performance as a template and if the director gives…

— James Preston Rogers

One of the reasons I got into acting to begin with is that I was trying to figure out how life worked.…

— Michael Shannon

I go to Stanford, and I'm an economics major, not thinking I'm going to do anything with acting. A professor came to…

— Sterling K. Brown

When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.

— Dan Stevens

I don't think I am really awesome. I think I have basic qualification to be an actor.

— Nithya Menen

I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting.

— Donald Sutherland

I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery.

— Julia Roberts

I can honestly say whatever I know about acting, all of it, I learned at 'GH.'

— Ryan Paevey

Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.

— Anne Hathaway

Meryl Streep was my hero. I wanted to be that type of actor more than anything.

— Jennifer Coolidge

I learn everything with my every film. If we stop learning, we would stop growing as an actor.

— Naga Chaitanya

I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.

— Dennis Farina

Public perception changes with every film. That's the best part of being an actor.

— Zareen Khan

I went to school for musical theater, and that is such a huge, central part of me.

— Helene Yorke

I think the best acting is when you allow yourself to be kind of vulnerable in the moment.

— Michael Sheen

Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.

— William Baldwin

Without chiropractic care, I couldn't have existed with my work as a TV and film actor.

— Clint Walker

I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.

— Anonymous

I don't ever want to be an established actor as I don't want this struggle to end.

— Neha Dhupia