Actor Quotes · Page 246

The American actor is very lucky. Why? Because so little is asked of him.

— Sanford Meisner

I think I'd really enjoy doing some more theatre, because that's where I started off.

— Rachel Shenton

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.

— Bruce Campbell

The monologue is an interesting space for an actor.

— Pratik Gandhi

The cast is so big that you really don't work very much.

— James Denton

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

— Carlos Castaneda

I've always been totally obsessed with theater - especially musicals.

— Beanie Feldstein

I'm a self-confessed genre nerd. I'm a very serious actor, but a genre nerd, all the same.

— Penelope Mitchell

I've grown as an actor. I am more confident within my art form. I have also grown as a person. I am…

— Alex Sharp

I didn't know what the path was that I wanted to be as an actor, to be honest. I've been doing a…

— Guy Pearce

I honestly think I'm just an actor. It doesn't matter the medium. I can go on stage and be happy, I can…

— Michael Ealy

Sometimes I think your intellect can get in your way as an actor or an artist. When you come from a world…

— Paul Dano

I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work…

— Famke Janssen

My best stuff as a teacher was always to find the problems within each individual actor, and I'll suggest things that I…

— Martin Landau

What appealed to me about the whole production is how big it is. I don't do musicals because I don't sing very…

— Jeremy Sisto

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

— Harold Ramis

When I thought of the word 'Himmatwala,' I couldn't think of anyone other that Ajay Devgn who could do justice to the…

— Sajid Khan

What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences, and I'm…

— Jensen Ackles

Once you get one actor to say yes, that leads to a second, and the third yes leads to a fourth -…

— Nancy Juvonen

When you become an actor, at some point you look for something that brings you back to your roots. You find something…

— Mekhi Phifer

I wrote a play before that and it never saw the light of day. And then I started working on this play…

— Amanda Peet

We actors have a big problem. We have a lot of insecurity and we are fragile. We surround ourselves with people who…

— Amala Paul

Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols... for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really…

— Antonin Artaud

I lack confidence, but I've been so lucky the way jobs have come to me, and I'm so grateful for them. I…

— Sheridan Smith

I am just an actor and we actors are a lucky lot because we get to play many lives in one life.

— Anoop Menon

It was a dream to be on Broadway as a kid, so to actually end up there, I loved it.

— Sophie Okonedo

As an actor, you want roles that are full of meat.

— Pilou Asbaek

I had always done theater during the entire six years I was with 'CSI: Miami.'

— Khandi Alexander

I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

— Queen Latifah

That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.

— Damian Lewis

I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.

— Michael Emerson

We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

— Neil Tennant

There's a fine line between lead actor and supporting actor.

— Ron Cephas Jones

Actors are always the pawns. They're the last ones in the food chain.

— Patricia Mauceri

I feel very privileged working with other actors. Actors tend to be the best company I know.

— Sam Neill

How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?

— Anne McCaffrey

I always wanted to play a Greek god in something.

— Kellan Lutz

I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.

— Kevin Bacon

I had done plays all my life. Many, many, many plays, off-Broadway plays.

— Margo Martindale

Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.

— Monica Raymund