Actor Quotes · Page 235

I want to kiss Sean Penn. He is an intense actor whom I really adore.

— Mallika Sherawat

Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are different.

— Blake Lively

What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

— Henry David Thoreau

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

— Alan Arkin

When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me.

— Asghar Farhadi

I was true to myself because I realized I was a better actor than signer.

— Kay Kay Menon

Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.

— Anonymous

Directing is my first love; turning an actor was rather accidental.

— Dileesh Pothan

I haven't done any 'Fringe' shows since I was about 17. Then I performed with my youth theatre in a show where…

— Neve McIntosh

Unless people are in the shoes of a child actor, they don't realise how difficult it can be at times. I definitely…

— Gaten Matarazzo

I'm just back in line with every other actor looking for a job right now and keeping my fingers crossed.

— Joe Lando

I wanted to go to college to be a journalist and follow in my dad's work. And then I became an actor.

— Lana Condor

On 'Heroes' I got to work with Greg Grunberg all the time and Masi Oka, and they both are just wonderful actors.…

— Brea Grant

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money…

— Marlon Brando

To be frank, my career as an actor was not even taking care of my lifestyle. Doing two odd films a year…

— Arbaaz Khan

Deciding what is to be sung and what is not to be sung is really what writing a musical is about.

— Stephen Sondheim

In the case of two actors connecting with each other and trusting each other, our bodies have memories without us having to…

— Michael Sheen

“My basic profession is as an actor, and I have learnt much about life through working as an actor. Working as an…

— Swami Dhyan Giten

My sense of myself is that I'm a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing, and able to do anything, to…

— John Lithgow

I was five when I did my first show with the Mountain Play Theatre company in Marin County. I started young, and…

— Claire Coffee

I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that's the reason I'm so ambitious. I felt like…

— Jesse Metcalfe

As an actor, you can't play big, huge things. But, what you can play is love for your father and caring for…

— Kristin Bauer van Straten

Aaron Sorkin uses a lot of the same people again and again - the people he likes. I think if there's ever…

— Allison Janney

You don't keep in contact with many of the people you work with because there are so many. Acting's just a transient…

— Helen Baxendale

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies.

— Curtis Armstrong

It's very hard, you know, for an Asian actor to be in a prime-time television series.

— Sammo Hung

I was 3 when I told my mom that I knew what my dharma was and that I wanted to be an actor.

— Brie Larson

I feel acting needs professional training. Very few actors are inherently talented.

— Varun Sandesh

Oh, I love Rock to death, man. He doesn't inspire me as an actor but, I mean, come on.

— Bill Goldberg

As an actor, I try to work in as many films as I can.

— Prateik Babbar

I think when you're at your best as an actor, it is cathartic.

— Annette Bening

An actor tries to be versatile, to immerse himself in a different culture.

— Jimmy Smits

I have developed my own brand of acting, and fortunately, people like it.

— Fawad Khan

I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do.

— Don Knotts

You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers.

— George Clooney

As an actor, to do all sorts of different films is great.

— Hugo Weaving

Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.

— Ian Mckellen

I tend to ask more questions than I should as an actor.

— Michael Arden

With acting, you have to just tell the truth in each moment.

— Jodie Comer

And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.

— Scott Speedman