Actor Quotes · Page 17

I started out doing theater in N.Y.C.

— James Van Der Beek

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

— Skeet Ulrich

Acting was something I had to do.

— Nancy Marchand

As an actor, I draw from myself.

— Richard Cabral

The last act crowns the play.

— John Ruskin

The industry is showing me respect as an actor.

— Shefali Shah

The best actors do not let the wheels show.

— Milan Kundera

Casting is always subject to availabilities.

— William Monahan

Ralph Fiennes and Edward Norton are among my favorite actors.

— Vance Joy

I see my face in the mirror, and I said, No, my ambition is not to be an actor.

— Dino De Laurentiis

Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.

— Kevin Kline

I think the better actor I am, the better person I become.

— Nick Gehlfuss

When you spend half the movie wondering where you seen that actor before

— Teen Post

I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.

— Lance Reddick

Theater is exciting because it is collaborative, but it is also exhausting for the same reason.

— Mark O'Donnell

To make this sound very, very unromantic, acting is my job, and I really love the craft of it.

— Naomi Ackie

I was initiated into acting with college plays, enacted by our amateur theatre group, Natya Aradhna, in Sholapur.

— Atul Kulkarni

Acting is therapeutic. I say I'm not shy, but... Acting is a very vulnerable experience, and you've got to be really confident…

— Shemar Moore

Actually, I came to Mumbai from Jamshedpur in 1991 to become an actor. I began searching for work and I was all…

— Neeraj Kabi

A good actor just wants to deliver the writing to the audience who've paid that night. There's an agonising desire to get…

— Prunella Scales

If I see an actor in a role that is really terrifying, no matter how many times I meet him socially, I'm…

— Tom Stoppard

“Holy Dance of the Vampires, no! Dance of the Vampires!' (Instead of cursing, we shout out the titles of legendary Broadway flops.”

— Tim Federle

You can't ever let yourself be thrown by a camera. That's never good for an actor. When you're reading the script, you…

— Jennifer Lawrence

De Niro didn't gain all that weight to play Jake La Motta just to prove he could get fat - every single…

— Patty Jenkins

I always wanted to act. My brother and I would hang out all the time, and a lot of our entertainment came…

— Katy O'Brian

For me, it was a wonderful surprise because I saw wonderful actors being very professional working in front of me [on Chicken…

— Vincent Paronnaud

I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if…

— Derek Jacobi

I was genuinely expecting 'You're just a shit actor' instead of 'We want you to do it.' I realized immediately how much…

— Andrew Garfield

Being an actor, you know what it feels like to be directed, so when the chance comes for you to direct someone…

— Camila Morrone

Lee Strasberg told me I had talent. Real talent. It was the first time that anyone, except my father--who had to say…

— Jane Fonda

I'm not a trained actor, so there was always going to be a certain amount of bringing my own... I was going…

— Mel Giedroyc

I think most people think that kids in the business are brats, but you don't have to be a brat to be…

— Dakota Fanning

I wanted to go to theater school.

— Baron Vaughn

You have a lot of disappointments as an actor.

— Tika Sumpter

I think all actors are professional liars.

— Sidharth Malhotra

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

— Jodie Foster

I am an actor. I try to do different things.

— Tony Shalhoub

I wouldn't be the actor I am without New York.

— Timothee Chalamet

I was a music theater nerd in high school.

— Tessa Blanchard

I like to continue as a good actor.

— Biju Menon