Actor Quotes · Page 2

I studied drama.

— Larry Drake

Theater is hard.

— Paul Dano

Trust the acting.

— Jean-Marc Vallee

I hate auditions.

— Andie MacDowell

Casting is a big deal.

— Andy Muschietti

Acting is my job.

— Goran Visnjic

I went to drama school.

— James Tupper

You can't trust actors.

— Emma Roberts

I wanted to write for Broadway.

— Cynthia Weil

Actors make choices for different reasons.

— Stacy Keach

And I'm OK being judged as an actor.

— Sean Hayes

My favourite actor is Mark Rylance.

— Charlie Plummer

I love working with ensemble groups of actors.

— John Hillcoat

I'm a character actor, always have been.

— Van Heflin

Actors are supposed to take versatile roles.

— Sargun Mehta

I don't really think of myself as an actor.

— Dylan Moran

I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals.

— Julie Harris

For my money, acting has been over-intellectualized. It's only playing.

— Denis Lawson

I think one of the things when you're casting children is you're also casting their parents.

— Morgan Freeman

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

— Christina Ricci

I'm not an activist, I'm an actor. I don't want to be an activist.

— John Cho

I got my Equity card and agent before I ever went to drama school.

— Ray Fearon

If I was not an actor, I would have been working in a five star hotel as a chef.

— Dhanush

My father said that I will be an actor, but I scoffed at him.

— Jackie Shroff

I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver.

— Annaleigh Ashford

No, my mom kind of led me toward acting. She wanted to be an actress when she was younger. That made me…

— Stephen Colbert

Older actors can still play young, but it's harder for young actors to be able to play that age range.

— David Schwimmer

I got my Equity Card from Berkeley Rep when I was 22 years old. I was cast in David Saar's 'The Yellow…

— Colman Domingo

You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just…

— Peter Berg

I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway.

— Colin Quinn

I thought my acting career was going to just last forever - and I didn't plan on it ending at 41, 42…

— Lorenzo Lamas

If James Franco's wearing a costume, and I'm wearing a motion capture suit, we don't act any differently with each other because…

— Andy Serkis

If you want to be an actor, you must have total, ruthless commitment to your art. Don't be ambitious for fame or…

— Steven Berkoff

I loved doing 'Teachers.' I don't know if it's set me on a road, but it certainly got me out of financial…

— Raquel Cassidy

Musicals are good times. I live to do a musical, there's nothing like it, no experience like that in the movie business.…

— Queen Latifah

You have to start with the notion that you pick the actor who's going to embody the role, the best person that…

— Christopher Meledandri

To do a musical takes a tremendous amount of energy because you have to act and sing at the same time. And…

— Alan Alda

For me, it is about creating a career - I'm very interested in the sports side and want to continue to do…

— Brian Baumgartner

Acting was something I did growing up. I never it took it too seriously; it was just one of those things I…

— Stephen Colletti

I'm an old school actor in the sense. More and more now, I play myself as I get older. Even as a…

— Jim Piddock