Actor Quotes · Page 21

All I really wanted to be was a working actor.

— Paul Rudd

The biggest enemy of any actor is fear.

— Stellan Skarsgard

I think acting is therapeutic for me.

— Dash Mihok

I did half a year of theatre.

— Pilou Asbaek

I think good acting is always character acting.

— William Sadler

As an actor, I'll play anything.

— Michael Caine

I started acting when I was 9.

— Bill Skarsgard

I grew up performing in theatre.

— Valorie Curry

I've been in the industry from the age of 9, so I have an agent. That's how you get auditions.

— Christopher Parker

I had been working in England since 2005 when I left drama school.

— Tom Payne

The Palace is a good theater, you can see from everywhere.

— Andy Warhol

Every once in a while as an actor, you do something that the kids really like.

— Ernie Hudson

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

— Fred Allen

I'm not an actor. I leave proper acting to proper actors.

— Lee Evans

Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard.

— Sandra Oh

Acting isn't being who you are on screen. It's pretending that you're someone else.

— Margaret Hoover

My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't…

— Mike Leigh

I was definitely in acting class in school, but I was never the princess of the play. I will always remember: they…

— Vicky Krieps

If you are worried about what people think of you, you should go into politics. Real actors take chances.

— Rob Lowe

My best stuff as a teacher was always to find the problems within each individual actor, and I'll suggest things that I…

— Martin Landau

Sometimes I think your intellect can get in your way as an actor or an artist. When you come from a world…

— Paul Dano

I honestly think I'm just an actor. It doesn't matter the medium. I can go on stage and be happy, I can…

— Michael Ealy

I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work…

— Famke Janssen

I've grown as an actor. I am more confident within my art form. I have also grown as a person. I am…

— Alex Sharp

Yes, we as actors are so appreciative of our fans, but there comes a point where, if we've been working all day,…

— Lili Reinhart

Sometimes an actor will stumble on the joke, and I'm right on them. Back it up before the audience hears the bad…

— James Burrows

The fact is there's a lot of better actors than I am who are out there and aren't working, so I'm still…

— Chris Evans

Only rendering dialogue and doing acting do not work with me. One has to get into the character, the actor has to…

— Sanjay Mishra

Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their…

— James Wolcott

A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be…

— Ivan Reitman

I'm a very physical actor; everything I do is pretty much body-oriented. I sometimes am able to deliver information just with a…

— Terry Crews

If you know what it is before you even start, it's not as interesting. Central to being an actor is pretending, and…

— Willem Dafoe

I knew I could never become a good actor.

— Tinnu Anand

Acting is the way I make my living.

— Peter Coyote

I don't know a single actor who is not picky.

— Akshaye Khanna

I started my career by doing plays in theatre.

— Hiten Tejwani

Dinner theater is anti-culture.

— John Simon

I'm not a Method actor - ask anybody.

— Paula Malcomson

If you're not acting, you're not an actor.

— Lance Henriksen

I kind of dwindled into acting.

— Ron Silver