Actor Quotes · Page 238

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.

— Whoopi Goldberg

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

— Oliver Goldsmith

If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

— Annette Bening

As an actor, it's good to try to do new things, I think.

— Ben Miller

“the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike.”

— Thomas Pynchon

I've been acting since I was 9, so not exactly a baby.

— Millie Bobby Brown

I love both acting and casting, and the idea will be to pursue both.

— Abhishek Banerjee

I don't believe there is any line bad enough that a good actor can't save.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't…

— Oscar Isaac

I want to do films that challenge me. I want to do what the actors I look up to are doing -…

— Josh Bowman

As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or…

— Ian Somerhalder

You can repeat things because it's on a set and there are actors. But if it's a great moment and you don't…

— Larry Charles

Acting is about portraying something... that dedication or learning the script of it is really important in really getting to know a…

— Jonathan Anderson

I'm not like, 'I'm a famous doula.' I'm a doula. I'm trying to find a way to get rid of the stigma…

— Domino Kirke

Being an artist, being an actor, it's about telling stories that could heal, that could open up discussion that could make the…

— Richard Cabral

Obviously when you cast someone who hasn't acted before it can be a massive opportunity for them.

— Andrea Arnold

A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his…

— Art Linkletter

You don't stop when a musical number comes up and do the number and then take up the scene where you left…

— George Chakiris

When you envy actors, only envy them for their good roles. Keep in mind they have to do a lot of roles…

— Bob Odenkirk

I grew up watching movies and television, and one day, when I was really young, I told my mom I wanted to…

— Cameron Monaghan

The most important thing to having a long career, as an actor, is diversity and being able to play different types of…

— Josh Hutcherson

We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a…

— Parker Palmer

I've still got lots of writing in me. I have not left journalism, but I put it on hold to focus on…

— Liane Balaban

There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a…

— Damian Lewis

I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.

— John Candy

I can only do my job and do the best I can as an actor.

— Anya Chalotra

Most people don't like challenges at work. Actors love challenges at work.

— Michael Cudlitz

When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?

— Mae West

I've loved every minute of every hour I've spent doing theatre.

— Laurie Metcalf

I was trying to prove myself and be known as an actor.

— Jacob Elordi

I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do.

— Taylor Sheridan

I am an actor so I have to do my work and going beyond societal norms.

— Saqib Saleem

I would be happy if people just called me an actor.

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

I like acting. It is a well-paid job and according to some people, I am good at it.

— Milind Soman

I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast.

— Jared Harris

I'm not a very good actor, so I break character all the time.

— Eric Andre

There are a lot of grey areas in 'The Cry' and the grey is what I'm interested in as an actor.

— Asher Keddie

“Naturalness onstage is just as much an artifice as naturalism in the novel”

— Julian Barnes

It's just as important to be a good human being as it is to be a good actor.

— Shannon Purser

Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting.

— Lauren Bacall