Actor Quotes · Page 249

I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear…

— Adam Ant

I would like to work with Todd Phillips of 'The Hangover'. I would like to do more comedies; it would be a…

— Dennis Quaid

New York is a great place to be as an unrepresented actor because there are so many 'open auditions' that you can…

— Catherine Mary Stewart

“Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing…

— Simona Panova

I think having healthy relationships makes me feel much more confident and available to do good work as an actor.

— Rose McIver

I exercise every day, not because I am an actor but because exercising keeps me healthy and happy.

— Shriya Saran

I feel like with acting it's not like you make a choice - it's kind of in you and you have to…

— Felicity Jones

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in…

— Nick Cannon

I loved the domesticity of my life as a struggling actor. When I wasn't going to auditions, I could do things like…

— Jenna Fischer

I was really an actor before I knew I could sing. And I just put the two together and went to musical…

— Madeline Brewer

I never wanted to be an actor. My dad was an actor, and he never brought joy home, so I didn't view…

— Jane Fonda

You obviously don't have to be a murderer to play a murderer or you don't have to be a dictator to play…

— Robert Duvall

The way I look at a musical, you are commenting on the human condition no matter what you do. A musical may…

— Gene Kelly

Plays are the marathon of scriptwriting. You fix on a point somewhere in the middle distance, and you start running, and you…

— Abi Morgan

I've heard New York actors say Chicago actors intimidate them because apparently we're the real nitty-gritty actors who're in a town where…

— Scott Adsit

“It's a good thing we don't know when we start out that when we arrive we haven't gone anyplace." "What's wrong with…

— Dean Jones

I'm good at cold reading; I've made a living doing this, and most of the time I do audition, but it's very…

— Courtney Gains

It's my livelihood, and while I'm doing my livelihood, I take it very seriously. But I don't wear being an actor like…

— Ken Wahl

All I can say, personally, is I have never learned more from an actor that I've worked with than Jeffrey Tambor. And…

— Justine Bateman

I need good grades because I want to go on to do A-Levels. I'm just not sure yet about whether I will…

— Georgia Groome

Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer.

— Brigitte Bardot

As an actor, you're putting yourself out there when you perform. You're bound to experience feelings of vulnerability because of this.

— Mpho Koaho

I snootily say I can't take too many dramatic parts, as it's taking work from actors who aren't funny.

— Robert Webb

Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.

— Jonathan Groff

I love the acting community at Cambridge. It's really quite committed and serious, since the days of Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen…

— Tom Hiddleston

I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your…

— Spencer Tracy

I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt…

— Lena Dunham

If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in…

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.

— Dustin Clare

I love to think about and therefore talk about why people do what they do. That's kind of why I like being…

— Casey Affleck

When you pick a career like acting, it's challenging, but it's a lesson every time you put yourself out there. I wouldn't…

— Lisa Rinna

I think it's very dangerous for an actor to take [shooting] too seriously because I think it could really damage you if…

— Michael Pitt

All I try to do is to realize the man I'm playing fully, then put as much into my acting as I…

— James Cagney

As an actor I feel I am responsible to tell an important story through the film I become part of, and 'Turtle'…

— Sanjay Mishra

I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.

— Macaulay Culkin

To be working in the theater steadily and to be recognized and appreciated by the community means the world.

— Lily Rabe

Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their…

— Warren Beatty

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do for an actor, I am looking forward to the challenge.

— Varun Sandesh

With imagery, as actors know, you can make up anything you want to. You can put yourself in icy water to get…

— Valerie Harper

People feel that I became an actor because I am from a film family and that my parents were actors. But actually,…

— Ranbir Kapoor