Actor Quotes · Page 207

I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor.

— Melissa Leo

I never did anything as an actor that I was extremely proud of.

— Dave Madden

I would never say anything derogatory about another actor even in my sleep.

— Akshaye Khanna

It is the same actor in theatre and cinema, just the technique of acting changes.

— Asrani

I dropped out of school and I never took acting classes.

— Alice Englert

I was studying acting, going to UCLA, selling real estate on the weekends

— Burt Ward

I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.

— Jack Gleeson

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

— James Lipton

I was in a theater company in Houston, Theatre Under the Stars, and I was involved in about 10 of their productions.

— Chandra Wilson

With 'Richard,' I was excited to make this film with such an amazing role for an actor. Play a wide range of…

— Jack Reynor

I find that all great directors, and I would include Ben Affleck and Clint Eastwood in that, they have great confidence. And…

— Amy Ryan

My parents were really encouraging of me doing theater, but the one thing they did do was say, 'You're not allowed to…

— Beanie Feldstein

Dominic Ingle has seen me probably from 9 years old coming through. He was watching from the outside.

— Kell Brook

Even great actors who transform who they are still go to a really honest place; I think that's sort of that special…

— Sam Esmail

Jackie Chan is so international. Everywhere you go, people know who he is. I hope I can be like that one day…

— Choi Si-won

Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a…

— Beth Henley

When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from,…

— Gary Oldman

As an actor, I just made the most of the opportunities that came my way and I owe it to my directors…

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

I remember being in college knowing I didn't want to go anymore. I wanted to try and become an actor. There is…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

For me, part of the joy of being an actor is thinking about what he would do in certain situations and how…

— Caleb McLaughlin

Those two years at drama school were nutty and weird. I didn't love it at all - I loved my class; I…

— Aisling Bea

To me, acting is a matter of absolute concentration. You can laugh and giggle with your friends up to the minute the…

— Elizabeth Taylor

Now, I don't know about my peers, but I get nervous - okay, I genuinely freak out - when an actor starts…

— Rod Lurie

I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically,…

— Laura Linney

Actors seem brave and unpredictable, but they're spontaneous as a tax return.

— Greg Gutfeld

I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.

— Vin Diesel

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

— Isla Fisher

No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.

— Stella Adler

It's really important for actors to feel that they're more than something for hire.

— Mary McDonnell

The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.

— Augusto Boal

There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.

— Dennis Farina

I never thought I actually could be an actor. I was always pretty shy and quiet.

— Danny Burstein

What's great about being an actor is you meet people and form a relationship very quickly.

— Jonathan Pryce

I'm a working actor, and that's what I always wanted.

— Genevieve O'Reilly

My true goal was to be an actor, was to be on TV. I wanted nothing more.

— Drew Scott

I have tried different things as an actor and have always believed in experimenting.

— Sushmita Sen

It is really hard when the actor you pictured can't do the film.

— Rebecca Miller

Being on a TV show is a really good gig for an actor.

— Michael Imperioli

I grew up as a child actress, not a child star. I was an actress - big difference.

— Natasha Leggero

You have to trust your instincts. There is a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it.

— Clint Eastwood