Actor Quotes · Page 248

I definitely want to keep acting now. I've got all kinds of projects I want to do.

— Demetrius Shipp, Jr

In the end, only a good actor stands out; if I am not a good actor, I won't stand out.

— Ileana D'Cruz

Grassroots projects are what keep you alive as an actor.

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

I take criticism positively, and I keep trying to develop as an actor.

— Naga Chaitanya

I would like to see the big, mainstream actors experiment with their roles.

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

I like dangerous directors who like dangerous actors and dangerous productions.

— Tim Curry

Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real.

— Sidney Poitier

I wasn't planning on doing musicals, but that's how I started.

— Cory Michael Smith

Everything can't be a postage-stamp-sized project. Everything can't be a chamber piece. Musicals aren't even meant to be that, or identified with…

— Harold Prince

There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over…

— David Schwimmer

In 'The Hobbit,' there were British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand actors, and Peter Jackson was adamant that we would all sound…

— Aidan Turner

My path was to be an actor and it’s been very good to me in life. It’s broadened my horizons and given…

— Nicole Kidman

Hopefully I've gotten better as an actor as the years have gone on, but the type of work I want to do…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Arnold Schwarzenegger made his tax returns public, [and] now there's a problem about him stretching the truth. Apparently under occupation he put…

— Jay Leno

Maybe it took a little time, or we're a little late, but finally we're recognizing that international stars are fantastic. They're the…

— Rob Marshall

Being an actor is great; you chill in your trailer, and they bring you a breakfast burrito and coffee. But as director,…

— Justin Chon

Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this…

— Patrick Kavanagh

The thing that's the most lovely to me, looking back at my time on 'Gilmore Girls', was how fortunate I was to…

— Liza Weil

I did use my own accent in a play once. It's a very freeing, liberating experience. Actors are often asked to adopt…

— Luke Evans

Acting is everything to me and it's at the core of every decision. Whatever importance costumes, details, lights, camera, dialogue and everything…

— Xavier Dolan

Will Smith is one of my favorite actors, and he's also a triple threat. He successfully crossed over from music into acting.…

— Kat Graham

I never wanted to be an actor and to this day I don't. I can't get a handle on it. An actor…

— Dick Van Dyke

In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully…

— S. I. Hayakawa

Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40…

— Joan Rivers

Every lawyer is an actor. The place where a lawyer's acting ability shines most is certainly in the courtroom, but it works…

— Jamey Sheridan

I was a mime. I'm not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a…

— Kerry Bishe

I'm a broadway girl, so anytime someone would sing my entrance music, that was probably my absolute favorite thing.

— Scarlett Bordeaux

The aim is to move from doing just action dramas to establishing myself as someone who can do family dramas as well.

— Duniya Vijay

I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie'…

— Michelle Williams

My brother, who's a violinist now, was the real ham, the real performer of the family. His passion for the violin is…

— Peter Dinklage

Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent.

— Lee Majors

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.

— Logan Marshall-Green

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we…

— Vincent D'Onofrio

I never wanted to be an actor. Till my third film, I didn't imagine that I would continue acting. I didn't like…

— Konkona Sen Sharma

Theater is a thankless art. When the curtain goes down, that is all. It doesn't really mean anything. Memories are very short,…

— Agnes Moorehead

I act, produce, and direct. They are three different jobs all within the same realm of creativity. I enjoy all of them…

— Prithviraj Sukumaran

I know how difficult it is to be an actor and work and then have to look after your personal life.

— Soha Ali Khan

I've always thought if you watch the performance and you don't know about the person, then you only see the performance.

— Janet McTeer

An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate…

— Andy Serkis

I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me…

— Barkhad Abdi