Actor Quotes · Page 201

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

— Julianne Hough

As an actor, you just can't do stuff you don't believe in.

— Mohnish Bahl

My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.

— Amy Schumer

All I've ever wanted to do as an actor was move people.

— David Harbour

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

— Noomi Rapace

I didn't want to be an actress. It wasn't a dream. I didn't have any dreams at all.

— Sandrine Bonnaire

The best thing an actor can bring to a role is himself - that's no secret.

— Dean Winters

I wasn't looking to be a star, I just happened to love acting, I was a reluctant actor.

— Abhay Deol

Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.

— John Barrymore

“ But what else can that hypothetical actor-filmmaker do? How does he find meaningful human connection in a world of people who…

— Catherine Lacey

I've worked opposite so many male actors whose egos have been so delicate that it was just so hard to do the…

— Andrea Riseborough

Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.

— Thornton Wilder

I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my…

— Zooey Deschanel

That's always the thing about biopics, you are stepping on moments in someone's life where you're making public something that is private.

— Naomi Ackie

If you're a serious actor, it's when you know you're going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.

— Rowan Atkinson

I'd seen Titus Welliver in a few shows and felt he had some inner demons in his portrayals, as does Harry Bosch.

— Michael Connelly

It's funny - when I first started as an actor, obviously there were long periods of being idle and all you want…

— Neil Jackson

I wanted to write a play about double nature ... one that wouldn't be symbolic or metaphorical or any of that stuff.…

— Sam Shepard

Historically, actors have been made very famous for roles that were something that was far - - Richard Widmark comes to mind…

— Clint Eastwood

I'm interested in working with groups of actors to tell complicated stories about what's happening to people, and that's because I came…

— John Wells

To me acting is a hobby and I'm inspired by it. And if I'm going to spend time doing something that I'm…

— Justin Timberlake

I may not be a trained actor, but I've paid my dues. And I mean that literally. I am a fully dues-paid…

— Donna Brazile

Something I learned as an actor was which scenes needed to be rehearsed and which actors are good with rehearsal, which actors…

— Angelina Jolie

Every actor has an obsession with their hair. You can see it on set, and you start to realize it's completely silly.…

— Louis Garrel

Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.

— Claire Tomalin

Am I a good actor? I don't think about it. But I'm working on it.

— Dennis Farina

Interviews are good if you want to be an actor because they raise your profile.

— Jack Gleeson

I think any actor has to be adventurous because he/she plays a gamble with his/her life.

— Nikitin Dheer

I am concerned about the musical theater, selfishly, because I love it.

— Joel Grey

I never stop. I don't want to stop acting because I'm afraid it'll all end, so I never say no.

— Allison Janney

My father Kamran Khan was a successful producer, director and actor in B-grade films.

— Farah Khan

The thing is, it was never a decision for me to never return to acting.

— Dylan Sprouse

If you give a scene enough room to breathe, actors will hopefully find those magical moments.

— Greg Bryk

I'm Rachael, and I just really, really like to act. But I don't think it's who I am.

— Rachael Leigh Cook

Before 'Coronation Street,' I was a jobbing actor, and after it, I'm a jobbing actor again.

— Rob James-Collier

I hope I get the chance to keep acting in great projects.

— Randall Park

I am an actor, but my most important job is provider of my family.

— Ian Ziering

It was a real sort of synergistic 'Aha!' moment when I started acting.

— Pete Ploszek

The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.

— Bernadette Peters

Acting was always on my mind so when the offer came to me I happily agreed to do it.

— Disha Parmar