Actor Quotes · Page 218

Look, I'm an actor, I don't profess to understand much of anything

— Eric Stoltz

I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you.

— Alan Bates

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

— Denzel Washington

I can't say I'm confident in my abilities as an actor.

— Randy Orton

I'm good at forgetting auditions, and then there is a surprise to getting something.

— Morfydd Clark

The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.

— Antonin Artaud

You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.

— Cate Blanchett

The first time I went to see theatre, I was in it.

— Paterson Joseph

I did a lot of musical theatre when I was younger, so I would love to go back and do that again…

— Hayley McFarland

I'm not saying Jews should only play Jews... I personally think actors should be allowed to act.

— David Baddiel

I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.

— Anonymous

I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at…

— John Hurt

When something tragic happens, all we want to do is escape it. Acting has always been kind of a twisted way of…

— Diana Silvers

I never pursued acting with, like, auditions. If anything, I was given roles by people who knew me and liked what I…

— H. Jon Benjamin

Sunday is the Academy Awards. Every time an actor says, 'I didn't expect this,' Ruth Bader Ginsburg will do a shot.

— David Letterman

Actors are programmed to see the worst. If you're talking about an actor's TV series, you say, 'I loved you last night.'…

— Tom Hooper

The heartthrob thing came in the late 1960s, and to be honest, it was fun! But I was very aware that well-known…

— Robert Powell

It's my life's aim to make people understand the job of an actor, what they go through, and why they are such…

— Parineeti Chopra

Most of actor's work is done at home, in your hotel room, in the wee hours of the morning thinking and reading…

— Colin Farrell

My parents are very proud of my success but still worry, as I'm in a profession where there is no guarantee of…

— David Harewood

To be an actor, it's really tough to find your own voice because you're always tied to other characters and going to…

— Gavin Creel

Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about…

— Michael Shannon

For all of my class projects, I somehow turned it into a commercial parody or put on plays. My whole thing was…

— Noel Wells

I think I understand why most actors and actresses are insane, because having to go through an emotional roller coaster as your…

— Nico Santos

In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house.

— Martha Plimpton

I'm glad Ashton Kutcher found a job where I know I can avoid seeing him.

— Anonymous

You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction.

— Paul Robeson

I am known as a good actor and, I dare say, a good politician.

— Shatrughan Sinha

I encouraged the cast to make up their own lines.

— Lars von Trier

They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway. They say there's always magic In the air.

— George Benson

“The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.”

— Oscar Wilde

I'm a stage actor, and we never get to see our performances.

— Clarke Peters

“Life as a Person is Unfair, Life as an Actor is Bullshit”

— Joshua Teya

I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.

— Adam McKay

I never really acted at school. It was doing small parts on TV that really got me started.

— Freddie Highmore

I feel like I have a lot of dedication to the acting profession.

— George Eads

As an African-American actor, a lot of our stories haven't been told.

— Chadwick Boseman

In general, I did what a lot of character actors do: I did it to get girls.

— Kurt Fuller

It's a super super strange world when the actors are the less weird ones.

— Michael Rooker

I'm not one of those actors that knows everything about politics.

— Justina Machado