Actor Quotes · Page 231

Drama class was one of the only areas at school I responded to.

— Orlando Bloom

I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.

— Malcolm McDowell

As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience.

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

I bet Ed Harris and James Caan run into each other a lot in auditions.

— Christopher Mintz Plasse

I am always interested in good performance, always tried to improve my skill as an actor.

— Mithila Palkar

As actors, we do have certain powers. I want to use them for the right cause.

— Rhea Chakraborty

I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.

— Stephen Rea

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

— Jeremy Piven

I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion.

— Will Oldham

Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely…

— Viola Davis

When I'm on the set at 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,' of course the content isn't funny, but the other actors…

— Stephanie March

Some of the things I've been in are comedic, but I don't get considered for true comedies because I'm a 'dramatic' actor.

— Noah Emmerich

That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too…

— Alexander Payne

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

— Katharine Hepburn

Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then.

— Anthony Edwards

I have always believed that an actor cannot afford to have a favorite genre. He must excel in every kind of film…

— Manoj Bajpayee

“We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it is good-and…

— Michel Foucault

I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I…

— Wesley Snipes

A lot of acting is working with your own psyche in order to allow yourself to be open and reveal yourself. But…

— Annette Bening

Theatre is all about the process and the sense of community that is created. You have weeks of rehearsal, time to explore…

— Dan Amboyer

I try not to live in the future too much; that can make you crazy as an actor. There are so many…

— Romola Garai

At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in…

— Cherie Lunghi

I would love to do musicals, sitcoms and even television talk shows. I think I have the potential. But most importantly, my…

— Jamie Park

The only way that you can keep moving forward, finding other ways of expressing things about this increasingly complicated world that we…

— Simon McBurney

“ The House Beautiful is, for me, the play lousy.”

— Dorothy Parker

Every actor needs a family film to be commercially noticed.

— Prachi Desai

The first play that I was ever a part of was 'Hamlet.'

— Kunal Kapoor

You have to be very specific on the technical part of the acting.

— Stephanie Corneliussen

Barry Jenkins just cast the right people and framed things the right way.

— Andre Holland

A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.

— Izabella Scorupco

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

— Paul Newman

I'm a character actor, so as a character actor, I'm always looking for something interesting.

— John Noble

I find as an actor, it's such a joy to be surprised. You're sort of looking for surprise.

— Fred Hechinger

When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over

— Anonymous

As an actor, I know roles go away. You get another job.

— Annie Wersching

I relished the opportunity to be on Broadway... It's the holy grail for people like me.

— Jeremy Piven

The theater has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told.

— Charles Ludlam

I just want to be a professional. I couldn't live without acting.

— Mickey Rooney

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.

— Peter Shaffer

I'm not one of those actors who gets physically fit for a role and then loses it all again.

— Ryan Kwanten