Actor Quotes · Page 200

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

— Peter Sarsgaard

Like every actor, I am always on the lookout for interesting characters.

— Vikrant Massey

My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.

— Maximilian Schell

When I started out, I wanted to be a serious actor. I never thought I'd get into comedy.

— Charlotte Rae

In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.

— Alan Cumming

I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

— Elia Kazan

As actors we try to find different sides of ourselves.

— Alexis Bledel

Part of acting is always just being available emotionally and open to people.

— Mike Colter

After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.

— Fatima Sana Shaikh

Actors, you kind of have these ebbs and flows. These moments where you're in your glory - where you're really cracking -…

— Mark Ruffalo

I carried on acting during school holidays and was all set to go to drama school when I was offered my first…

— Gina Bellman

When are we going to stop labeling everyone? How many times have I been referred to as 'out gay actor?' Do we…

— Bryan Batt

Directors have so much else to do besides tell actors what to do. There are so many issues and problems.

— Michael Douglas

As a nonbinary person starting out as an actor, I feared there wasn't space for me in the mainstream industry.

— Emma D'Arcy

I think ever since I was a kid I knew subconsciously that I wanted to be an actor. I would walk around…

— Kelly Blatz

I didn't graduate. I was doing theater in Michigan the summer after my junior year and just moved on to New York.

— John Wesley Shipp

I can't tell you about acting. You can develop all the skills, voice, gesture, movement, you can develop by exercise and practice…

— Peter O'Toole

I'm definitely a frustrated musician, though it's more in terms of wishing I was a better guitar player and songwriter. But I've…

— Cillian Murphy

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.…

— James Dean

There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then…

— Karl Urban

Normally, they want me to be rude to them. People come up to me and sing, and I say 'That was great.…

— Simon Cowell

I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there…

— Nancy Marchand

What I've learned, more than anything, as a young actor who has been in the business for 10 years, is just to…

— Theo Rossi

I'm really excited that people are receiving my performance like this. It makes me feel good, because I've been working really hard.…

— Forest Whitaker

Actors don't act, we're just being in a different circumstance and scenario.

— Aeriel Miranda

I don't call myself an actor, I call myself an entertainer, because I don't just do one thing.

— John Barrowman

But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.

— Thomas Haden Church

Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.

— Valerie Azlynn

One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.

— Wes Anderson

Acting is something I've always loved and enjoyed.

— Shraddha Kapoor

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

— Olga Kurylenko

It's every actor's dream to be called the character's name.

— Varun Sharma

I never planned to do female roles. It just happened. I was typecast.

— Divine

Every actor wants to be everybody - play all the roles.

— Kyle Chandler

“Then Jethro Furber wondered whether Omensetter wasn't an actor.”

— William H. Gass

My favorite thing in the whole is getting to work with the actors.

— Rob Letterman

I liked the idea of being an actress, but thought better of it.

— Sara Cox

Being a character actor, I can go on until I'm 70 or 80; I'm not bound to the way I look.

— Sophie Okonedo

The show is in the casting. Choose the right people.

— Susan Nattrass

Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time

— Meryl Streep