Actor Quotes · Page 283

Hal Holbrook was in one of my first television movies when I was about 18 or 19. He'd made such a strong…

— Sean Penn

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has…

— Anna Deavere Smith

Trying different things is very important to me. I see people and want to wear their clothes and drive in their cars…

— Fred Ward

There's a lot of technical issues with a musical whereas with a play it's just the five people onstage in this moment.

— Mike Faist

Ultimately, I think what I want from my career is to be able to create work for myself, and there's only so…

— Lucas Hedges

I've always said that actor years is like dog years: it feels like forever when you're not working.

— Danielle Brooks

I probably drive casting people crazy because I'm not thinking about actors so much as real people.

— Mike Judge

My mom and dad have had a huge impact on my life, so I look up to them. As a actor, I…

— Jacob Hopkins

When I was a kid, I was really into 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' and 'Friday the 13th.' But as I got…

— Simon Rex

I certainly very much enjoy acting, but I am open to anything really. I think it's important when you have those moments…

— James Scott

I moved to New York to be a theater actor. It's what I studied and what I thought I wanted to do…

— Stephanie Beatriz

In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to teach children to be friendly with children…

— Joan Ganz Cooney

Ultimately, I want to be a good person and spread happiness through my acting. If I don't forget to be appreciative and…

— Park Bo-gum

I don't have an answer for why Hollywood still casts non-ethnic people for ethnic roles. It's something that has to change. Sometimes…

— Adam Beach

The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we'll see that's to come in the end…

— Blair Underwood

When it comes to casting for movies, it is a priority that you cast right. The guiding principle must be what is…

— Mani Ratnam

The Hollywood model is to develop scripts for 10 years, sell them, transfer them, attach this actor, then attach a director. This…

— Mike Birbiglia

I've dealt with a few method actors, and I don't know if should say this, but I think it's a bunch of…

— Natalie Portman

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

When my oldest brother started acting. From there, I wanted to act myself. That's the long story short.

— Mara Wilson

I would love to direct an 'Apes' movie. It would be in the spirit of where I'm going with my career -…

— Andy Serkis

I always wanted to do a Hollywood story. The thing about actors, though, is that they go through a streak of roles.

— Tom Folsom

You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

— Lance Henriksen

I think I would have had trouble living with someone who didn't know what it was like to be an actor.

— Pam Ferris

At a certain point, I had to be like, 'I will not do any more auditions with a Middle Eastern accent.'

— Jason Mantzoukas

I thought running around trees is a gardener's job and not an actor's. However, if the script demands that I run around…

— Kay Kay Menon

It's fun to do accents; it's fun to do different periods - that's why you become an actor. Because it's fun to…

— Jean Smart

I didn't grow up acting. I really just started, literally, when I was 18. I just feel like it's a thing of…

— Dylan O'Brien

My main goal for taking up acting as a profession was to show that sport or MMA teaches you life skills that…

— Ritika Singh

People make a star out of actors after one or two films and keep capitalising on the same thing without having the…

— Barun Sobti

I saw "Follies" again at thirty, and you know, I had this great appreciation for [Stephen] Sondheim's brilliance, his lyrics.

— Charles Busch

From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or…

— Alan Rickman

I've had offers for Broadway and Hollywood musicals, but I do not want to take just any musical. I want the musical…

— Anita Bryant

That's always - that's been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play.

— Janet Jackson

You can't act alone. Use the props, the setting, the crew around you, and of course, your fellow actors.

— Jon Polito

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

— Ivor Novello

I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make…

— David Duchovny

My dad was part of that generation with Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay, of working-class actors breaking through. They'd never had an…

— Tom Burke

When I was 15, 16, I studied with Stella Adler at the Conservatory of Acting, then I stopped again and went to…

— Robert De Niro

I wanted to start with a very small role, to get my feet wet. I'm sure I'm not as good or as…

— Claudia Schiffer