Actor Quotes · Page 216

I'm this dude that can play a farmhand and a handyman and sometimes a Greek god.

— Luke Evans

Part of the privilege of being an actor is the people you get to work with.

— Joel Edgerton

So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.

— James Earl Jones

Growing up in an atmosphere of storytelling made me an actor.

— John Lithgow

I mean, I've acted professionally since I was 16.

— Nicolas Cage

You try, as an actor, to wear a mask; you're serving a story.

— Mark Rylance

I would love, love, love to do theatre. It's how I started, and essentially, it's my heart.

— Candice Patton

I want to be an actor who always tries the best regardless of roles.

— Rain

Acting is the most fun. I like to do it and it's great that I can still do that, but you know,…

— Jon Favreau

I think 'Game Of Thrones' has been genius, and I really don't want it to end. Every episode is huge. It's totally…

— Eric Balfour

When I started out as an actor I knew very little, which was probably a good thing. I was totally open. You…

— Matt Dillon

I think that there's not much point to being an actor if you're not enjoying it, so I try to be picky…

— Grey Damon

Some of the most cutthroat auditions you'll have as an actor are when you'll have three words to say.

— Stephen Amell

I was a Hollywood musical fan as a kid, and I know how rare it is for someone who originates the Broadway…

— John Lloyd Young

You can't start putting difficult clothes on a person. They're actors: they have to move, they have to feel real.

— Patricia Field

Whenever any actress works with an actor again, more than once, people start linking their names.

— Prabhas

I was trying to get into the film industry in Mexico and nobody was letting me in. I was looked down upon…

— Melissa Barrera

My first thought about acting, growing up here in New York, was theater, and I feel like I need to force myself…

— Paul Dano

Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about…

— Philip Johnson

I was a glamorous actress in Mumbai. I had done Sanjay Gupta's 'Musafir.' I wanted to know how Buddhada thought of me…

— Sameera Reddy

Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There's just a certain type of understanding that comes from having been…

— Aaron Ruell

You start at a young age, going on auditions, and you think you did a good job and expect to get that…

— Michael B. Jordan

As an actor you're only as good as the things you're offered. And there just weren't any female directors offering me things.…

— Nicole Kidman

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and…

— Lajos Egri

I think I am a good actor myself. If I wasn't a director, I would have been an actor.

— Priyadarshan

Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

— Nathan Fillion

I decided at age 5 to start acting and I have never wanted to do anything else.

— Lois Robbins

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

— Uta Hagen

Any actor will tell you that you go where the work is, especially when you have children.

— Nicole Ari Parker

We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

It's always a good day when I get to work with Jim Belushi, who I adore.

— Rob Lowe

The theater community is so incredible, kind, and supportive.

— Kirstin Maldonado

No matter how long a break you take, an actor does feel comfortable in front of the camera.

— Ayesha Takia

I was an accidental actor. I was never formally trained.

— David Soul

As an actor, a lot of things you do, people don't see it.

— Beck Bennett

I just want to continue to learn as an actor and as a person.

— Julia Garner

As an actor you want to just like, act as much as possible.

— Alia Shawkat

I like to consider myself an actor who just happens to be Hispanic

— Mario Lopez

But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor.

— Channing Tatum

I'm a technician whose efforts go into hiding my limitations as an actor.

— Vijay Antony