Actor Quotes · Page 176

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

— Martha Graham

If I were very handsome, maybe I'd have been an actor.

— George Cukor

Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.

— Christopher Durang

Matching character and actor is what a good director does.

— Bruno Dumont

Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.

— Laurence Fox

I was in a lot of school plays, and it became the thing I did.

— Stephen Mangan

As a kid, I wanted to be an actress, but ambition and reality are two different things.

— Tamannaah

It's too theatrical not to express yourself constantly.

— Brian Michael Bendis

What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my…

— Jeremy Irons

But, as an actor, the role that I enjoyed, in terms of really understanding and appreciating this profession, was Anoop Singh's 'Qissa'.

— Rasika Dugal

Theatre gives you an altogether different kind of thrill which every actor who wants to grow must try.

— Asrani

In a huge way, everything that I've done in my life has helped inform my ability to communicate with actors and direct…

— Steve Antin

I remember doing Broadway, I started Broadway in 2005, and, of course, I sing two songs in the play, 'Hairspray'.

— Tevin Campbell

I never thought in terms of typing myself, because I wasn't that successful. After an actor has done a few pieces of…

— Jack Nicholson

When I was 12, I realized I was very uncomfortable having my parents on set. So I told them that, and they understood.

— Ellen Page

The first time I got paid as an actor was for 'Man of La Mancha.' So 'Don Quixote' has always been a…

— Jason Winston George

I wouldn't be an actor if it weren't for the English teacher I had my junior year in high school. She's the…

— Julianne Moore

In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill…

— Denis Johnson

I wouldn't have thought for one minute I'd be doing British wildlife presenting when I started out in my career after stage…

— Michaela Strachan

I feel like this is the way I was meant to interact with acting. Which is as a director, and helping, working…

— Lynn Shelton

Hollywood is the place to be for actors - and there's just a big rush when an Australian comes over just because…

— Callan McAuliffe

One of the reasons I love acting is because I'm so interested in other people's lives, and I often incorporate things I…

— Jason Alexander

If you believe that how you do your work is as influential as the work you do, then a theatre rehearsal, which…

— Phyllida Lloyd

The first state an actor experiences onstage is the one he just experienced in life. One needs great courage not to portray…

— Yevgeny Vakhtangov

Alan Ball, he's good at challenging his actors, I'll say that.

— Nelsan Ellis

As an actor, the first thing you learn in drama school is you never judge.

— Jason Clarke

I think an actor should portray all kinds of emotions in films.

— Biju Menon

I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school.

— Celia Imrie

I always had this dream to act: so much so, even as a child, I used to take part in Ram Leelas.

— Ashish Sharma

Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.

— Anthony Anderson

If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.

— Jared Harris

Every actor wants to be versatile; everyone wants to do something different.

— Raza Murad

To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me.

— Stephen Hopkins

“I never wanted to be Mickey Rourke. I don’t think he did either.”

— Paul Neilan

It won't be wrong if I say that I've grown up in the theatre and it has grown in me.

— Pratik Gandhi

I believe you can't be an actor if you haven't had the feeling of being abandoned as a child.

— Isabelle Adjani

It'd be hard to be a lead actor if I didn't have lips. Those are tough to graft back on.

— David Walton

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.

— Laurence Olivier

You can't be a good actor if you are not a good person.

— Richa Chadha

Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.

— Gaby Hoffmann