Actor Quotes · Page 229

Performance is one thing which has to be good because you're an actor.

— Disha Patani

Good directors give short and specific instructions to their actors.

— Bill Hader

It makes sense for an actor to space out his releases. But filmmaking is unpredictable.

— Naga Chaitanya

To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.

— Rupert Penry-Jones

I'm not one of those little kids that grow up wanting to be an actor.

— Travis Fimmel

Broadway is always going to have a place in my heart. That is never gonna change!

— Caleb McLaughlin

The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.

— Roger Moore

The dream is to originate a role in a show on Broadway. That's the ultimate goal.

— Jake Epstein

I had a big part of my life in the theater in Philadelphia. Philadelphia's changed, but I love it.

— John Glover

To be very objective, I am here in this field for thirty five years, and I always knew that Shahid has an…

— Pankaj Kapur

I think I do have a good eye. It's quite liberating, being in a position to read a script and say, 'No.'…

— Matthew Macfadyen

I come from theatre and there have been roles where my job was to stand in the corner, with a sword in…

— Varun Sharma

What I've discovered is, really, acting is acting is acting. It's all the same. Seventy-five percent of the skills are the same…

— William H. Macy

I always thought acting was all lights, camera, action. It's a job; you have to do your job correctly.

— Corey Haim

An actor is like a piece of clay: you just keep moulding me. Even people who work with you every day want…

— Erika Eleniak

Any comic is a very good actor. Look at Don Rickles. He is saying the same joke every night for 20 years…

— Joan Rivers

As an actor you have to bring to the table your creative input. But when a director like Ridley Scott says I…

— Cuba Gooding, Jr

I have a tradition of working with actors, over and over again. I've worked with Jason Bateman, over and over again. You…

— Peter Berg

Sometimes, you run into trouble as an actor when you're not working with someone who is collaborative or doesn't bring themselves to…

— Josh Peck

I fail to understand why the #MeToo campaign in India didn't gain momentum when Malayalam actor Dileep was arrested after an actress…

— Payal Rohatgi

A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they're trying to have a kind of poise or presentation…

— Alessandro Nivola

“I convince myself that I am having fun playing big lawyer in the big city-working all hours, surrounded by a ringing phone…

— Julie Buxbaum

I always had an eye toward the stage for the story of Hamilton's life, but I began with the idea of a…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I like it all. I love getting inside of people's heads and playing what drives people and what makes them do what…

— Alicia Silverstone

Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe...

— Ezra Koenig

The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

— Abel Ferrara

For me, that is the craft of acting: literally creating something from nothing.

— Russell Hornsby

Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically.

— Juliette Binoche

My first play was 'A Month in the Country' at the Chichester Festival Theatre.

— Phoebe Fox

I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.

— Liam Neeson

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

— Ice T

An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.

— Malcolm McDowell

I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing.

— Robert Evans

I was editing for Kunal Kapoor when I got my first film 'Jaan Tere Naam' as lead actor.

— Ronit Roy

Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause.

— Ralph Fiennes

It's for people to judge if my acting is good or bad.

— The Great Khali

I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.

— Samuel Larsen

I don't personally feel a responsibility to be a role model, but as the actor, I do.

— Chris Colfer

I feel good cinema, be it big or small, with small actor or big actor, it always works.

— Ravi Kishan

I love actors, and I'm passionate about the creative process of acting and filmmaking.

— Tasha Smith