Actor Quotes · Page 244

There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.

— Antonin Artaud

Yale was my first audition. I say this to say I was a baby. I knew nothing of acting.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

— Arthur Miller

Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.

— Matthew Modine

Acting is just my hobby. When I don't want to do it, I won't do it.

— Nana Patekar

When I started acting, I used to read all the reviews.

— James Purefoy

I'm sure if you dig deep, Joe and Ralph Fiennes do it because they want to be noticed.

— Steve Guttenberg

You need a lot of intra-personal relation skills if you're an actor.

— Pratik Gandhi

An actor knows two important things - to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the…

— Ronald Reagan

There is nothing more gorgeous than being in a room with a play or watching someone on a stage delineate the human…

— Dael Orlandersmith

I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see…

— Jeff Daniels

Actually it's a gift as an actor to cover such different parts of history. It's like time travelling, being inside a history…

— Sebastian Koch

Anything negative that happens to you in life can be turned into a positive as far as acting is concerned. You can…

— Kierston Wareing

Theatres, along with the likes of the Ulster Orchestra, for example, are the cultural heartbeats of our towns and cities, and without…

— James Nesbitt

One of the most important things I've learned about acting is that you can't separate how you live your life and how…

— Larry Moss

I have done a lot of things apart from acting, probably because acting was not very consistent in my life.

— Soni Razdan

In a play, certainly, the subject is of more importance than in any other work of art. Infelicity, triviality, vagueness of subject,…

— Henry James

I like to be a lot of different things at once and dress different ways and I change my hair all the…

— Mae Whitman

Hollywood, they make up these Latinos because they have a certain physical type or a certain name or whatever... It's not that…

— Jaime Camil

It's just a dream of the struggling actor to just have a proper shot - not just in a film that people…

— Katherine Waterston

To be honest, the core reason why I became an actor was that I didn't want to go to school. That's where…

— Ranbir Kapoor

Web series is a new format, where everything, from the writing to storytelling is different. As an actor you have to approach…

— Atul Kulkarni

My feeling about young people who want to pursue a career is - the first thing is do your homework on where…

— Lorna Luft

The western has always been, for me, the bread and butter. It's the easiest place for an identifiable Native American to be…

— Wes Studi

As an actor, you should be willing to take challenges.

— Wilmer Valderrama

I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.

— Simon Callow

I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.

— Laura San Giacomo

I have a theater company that I'm a part of, Colt Coeur, and they do some really rad projects.

— Ato Essandoh

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

— Julian Fellowes

I was getting to perform with an actor with whom I had never interacted before

— Deepika Padukone

Twin Peaks' was the best job I ever had as an actor.

— Richard Beymer

Wanting to be better as an actor, model, and person in general motivates me to push myself.

— Karrueche Tran

My pseudonym is 'George R. R. Martin.' That guy's just an actor.

— Gwendoline Christie

I need to grow as an actor and work with different people, understand their points of view.

— Zayed Khan

I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.

— Antoinette Perry

You are inspired to give a better performance when there are good actors with you.

— Divya Dutta

The actor doesn't merely command the stage, he seems to own it by divine right.

— Frank Rich

I wanted to be Bob Hope or Red Skelton from the time I was 8 years old.

— Jerry Van Dyke

As an actor and a director, I always let my actors go... assuming they have good ideas.

— Tim Matheson

If anyone ever wanted me to do Broadway out there, poopshoot readers, please think of me.

— David Arquette