Actor Quotes · Page 274

While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common…

— David Antin

“An actor’s success has the life expectancy of a small boy about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.”

— Fred Allen

I saw a production of 'The Seagull' at Dallas Theatre Center when I was in high school, and it really did a…

— Brian J. Smith

I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles,…

— Patrick Wilson

When I talk about character work, I don't really feel like i do much as an actor when I look at other…

— Alex O'Loughlin

Acting is very much like a child making believe. I'm not one to become a character, but I fall in love with…

— Lusia Strus

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes…

— Stephen Sondheim

I think if I had just gone to acting school and then auditioned, no one would be like, 'Who's that girl?' Like,…

— Rachel Sennott

I didn't know what acting school was, so I went onto the computer and typed 'acting school.' I found one in Berlin,…

— Vicky Krieps

If you start acting and you start thinking about and worrying about what other people are going to say about it, you'll…

— Ray Liotta

A lot of times, people believe that until you're a certain-list actor, you say yes to everything; you're not allowed to say…

— Cress Williams

You don't learn charm. It's not something that you can acquire. I have used it much in my life with great success,…

— James Nesbitt

If you want to be an actor, you must have total, ruthless commitment to your art. Don't be ambitious for fame or…

— Steven Berkoff

Actors spend most of their time out of work, so I actually spend more time making furniture. The thing about furniture that's…

— Michael Schoeffling

The poetics of the oppressed is essentially the poetics of liberation: the spectator no longer delegates power to the characters either to…

— Augusto Boal

You get into these executive offices, and people say, 'Oh, we have this project. Wait a minute, guys, we need diversity -…

— Aldis Hodge

If you have the opportunity as an actor to control your career in any way, then you've won the jackpot.

— Romola Garai

Back in school, some of my friends asked me to participate in the school's dramatic society. I did, and it opened up…

— Joe Don Baker

My understanding is the day I start looking at myself as a star is the day I will die as an actor.

— Mahira Khan

Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe…

— Mignon McLaughlin

Sondheim writes the music and lyrics, and because he's so smart and goes so deep with his feelings, there's a lot to…

— Bernadette Peters

Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you're not going to be good.

— Paul Morrissey

In drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different…

— Lance Reddick

No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is.

— Peter O'Toole

When I was very young, Michael Crawford was a real hero because I saw this guy who could do everything - make…

— Nick Mohammed

I know Toby Jones very well, we've done yoga together in the past and get on very well. He's a fantastic actor,…

— Lesley Sharp

As a singer and actor, I wanted to confidently enlist as an active-duty soldier, and do everything I could in my duty…

— Seo In-guk

I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature.…

— Elle Macpherson

As an actor, and as you get to a certain level... and it's pilot season and you read the trades, you could…

— Fred Willard

To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.

— Rupert Sanders

Comedy is far more difficult, as it involves improvisation and impromptu acting, and as an actor, that came as a welcome break…

— Divyanka Tripathi

Acting, it's very different. It's obviously very different and a lot more difficult than the modeling world I came from.

— Sarah Roemer

I am very shy by nature and I won't even have told people about my birthday, had I not been an actor.

— Sonu Sood

I didn't become an actor until I was an old man of 28 or 29. I declared to the world that I…

— Peter Falk

I always wanted to make a living as an actor living in New York. A New York actor. What's better than that?

— Bobby Cannavale

I even asked [Saniyya Sidney] why she wanted to be an actor and she said, "I'm serious about this. These other little…

— Denzel Washington

Acting is acting, but acting is different in almost always every project, and very, very different in this context.

— Helen Mirren

Ninety percent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

— Natalie Portman

I don't know if there's anything sadder than an actor who hasn't made a good picture, and at least I got a…

— Michael Madsen

British actors used to be scared of the multi-year options that U.S. TV shows demand. That has changed, because the same is…

— Jamie Bamber