Actor Quotes · Page 173

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

— Clint Eastwood

I always made a living as an actor when I came to California. I never had to do anything else.

— Bruce Dern

I don't hate being an actor. But if there's a choice, I prefer to direct.

— Stephen Chow

My dad's an actor, and my mum's a casting director and a writer.

— Bel Powley

For me, an actor is a person who makes characters like a cobbler makes shoes.

— Jeffrey Wright

I learnt that an actor should be willing to take risks, try new things and unlearn stuff.

— Shraddha Srinath

Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.

— Ethel Merman

I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.

— Mark Ruffalo

I just want to bring as much natural as I can. I'm not saying that people who take acting lessons are false.…

— Betty White

I thought that I could do some kind of vehicle involving rock musicals and presenting rock and characters and storyline in a…

— David Bowie

I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the…

— John Oliver

If I call myself an actor, it sounds like I'm trying to pass myself off as someone who went to drama school.

— Limmy

People should be shrouded in mystery. Especially actors. No, hang on, maybe actors should be blown up.

— Michael Gambon

I am a private person; I think that's important if you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and…

— Andrew Scott

Well, it's always fun to show range as an actor. 'Cause once you've shown range, then someone has to do something with…

— Adam Pearson

I'm so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldn't have dared to think I…

— Marion Cotillard

When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French…

— Kate Beckinsale

I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings, and my first teacher was…

— Marion Cotillard

A stage set should not make a pretty picture of its own. The empty stage should look formal and pleasing, but should…

— G. Wilson Knight

An actor puts himself in the hands of a director. And the director's first responsibility, obviously, is to tell the story, but…

— Tobin Bell

They had a contest where they would - for some reason, someone in the past loved musical theater, and so if you…

— Andrew Sean Greer

As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never…

— Lavrenti Lopes

I think that an actor shouldn't work from a place of fear, because it'll show in your work. You should work from…

— Rutina Wesley

The character I play in Star Quality says acting is the be-all and end-all of her life. I'm not like that. I…

— Penelope Keith

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience.

— Simon McBurney

I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.

— Gary Sinise

I would have never thought when I was a young actor that I would want to direct.

— Soni Razdan

I wanna do Broadway one day in New York. That would be an ultimate dream of mine.

— Jessica Lowndes

If you don't know what is being said, the rest of the actor's work is wasted.

— Tom Stoppard

I'm not actively seeking stardom. I just go to auditions, and I knock on wood.

— Paul Rudd

Acting is fun, and if you enjoy doing it, you should take it seriously and see what you can do.

— Stephen Colletti

Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.

— Spencer Tracy

I want to keep continuously going through all the pages in the book of being an actor.

— Jason Mitchell

I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.

— Alan Tudyk

One of the most important things for an actor is to know who you are.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I think every actor should go back and do theater periodically.

— Chad Lowe

If you're a leading actor you don't work with another actor. You work with a lady.

— Michael Caine

One of the reasons that I needed to become an actor was that I didn't have any self-confidence.

— David Jason

I guess it wasn't really part of my story on 'Drag Race' but I'm a trained actor and singer.

— Jinkx Monsoon

I approach directing from an actor's standpoint.

— Derek Magyar