Actor Quotes · Page 180

I love acting. I'm able to express myself and not get made fun of for it.

— Adi Shankar

I absolutely loved my stint on Broadway in 'Hairspray.'

— Corey Reynolds

“Hadn't the actors acted of their own volition?”

— Anthony Doerr

It's just acting. I take acting seriously but up to a point.

— Tom Sizemore

I never thought I'd be right to play a Juliet-like character.

— Ellie Kendrick

An actor has a great responsibility to an audience - to touch their hearts.

— Agnes Moorehead

It's only an advantage as an actor - looking younger than you are. If you can maintain it.

— Cillian Murphy

Actors don't request what scenes to be written in. That's just not how it works.

— Nicholas Gonzalez

If you stay cocooned in your own safety net, you cannot grow as an actor. You need to be socially engaged and…

— Shabana Azmi

I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or…

— Tahar Rahim

It's better to find a stunt person who can act. It's easier to do that than to find an actor who can…

— Doug Liman

As an actor, you never know where the work's going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.

— Lesley Nicol

In terms of being Australian, I think a big part of it is the determination to prove yourself, just like Aussie actors.

— Keiynan Lonsdale

The thing that inspired me to become an actor was to work on stage three hours a night in a play, sleep…

— Joe Don Baker

In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

— Rafael Vinoly

I have never struggled for anything in my life because I never thought I will be an actress. Film just walked up…

— Madhuri Dixit

It's actually really great to be a student and an actor, because I get to do this job that I love, then…

— Julia Stiles

First and foremost, I think it's just such an incredible gift as an actor when you're presented with a notion of essentially…

— Nicholas Galitzine

Your mind can't always tell the difference between pretend and reality if you pretend too long; or if you go too deep…

— Annabella Sciorra

There is an image of me in France that is a long stretch from who I really am. I read about this…

— Lou Doillon

I don't have a philosophy for choosing roles. Sometimes, it's just, 'This might be interesting; that might be fun to do.' There…

— Max von Sydow

No one expects a Broadway musical comedy to be in the vanguard of what is bohemian, raunchy, folkloric, academic or aggressively experimental.…

— Margo Jefferson

Sometimes as a deaf actor navigating television and film, I fret that I am asking for too much or am slowing things…

— Lauren Ridloff

I think theatre is a democratic act and I think writing a play is not a democratic act. I think we should…

— Sarah Ruhl

Actors don't like to read what they're supposed to do.

— Ewan McGregor

There was one thing I loved a little bit more than surfing - and that was acting.

— Kelsey Grammer

I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor.

— Alan Arkin

For a movie actor, the biggest challenge on TV is the number of close-up shots.

— Sonali Bendre

My experience has been that actors always want to be directed.

— John Wells

What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues.

— Samuel West

In some parts of Appalachia, actors and acting are still not considered quite decent.

— Conchata Ferrell

I want to be an actor, and I am being an actor. I'm not ready to run off on a road trip.…

— Liane Balaban

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater

— Tavis Smiley

There was a drama club in our high school, and I just did plays.

— Holly Hunter

I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.

— Vincente Minnelli

I'm a working actor, so no matter what, if an opportunity comes my way, I'm doing whatever.

— Quincy Brown

I love acting, and that's my passion. So I would love to do more movies and some serious things

— Selena

I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.

— Aaron Taylor-Johnson

An actor has to do everything, all genres of films.

— Karthi

I'm best known as a stand-up comedian, but I'm a good actor in the right role.

— Marcus Brigstocke