Actor Quotes · Page 286

For the longest time, I still tried to hold up this act - this nice-guy, superhero, role-model persona - that wasn't really…

— Neville

Being an actor has taken me to places I never imagined I would go - both in the imaginary world and in…

— Myha'la

I believe comedy is the toughest genre to bring alive onscreen, but it's something that I really enjoy doing as an actor.

— Riya Sen

In an acting career, you need to reach a stage where you can say 'Thank you very much, I can't do this…

— Hiten Tejwani

Some actors are what I call more like mirror actors, which means that they do a performance at home in front of…

— Stellan Skarsgard

I certainly want to establish myself as an actor in my own right, rather than being just the actor who plays Harry…

— Daniel Radcliffe

“My father pretended to be reading his letters. He was a dreadful actor. ‘Since when have you liked Wagner?”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.

— Michael Stuhlbarg

I acted professionally for about eight years, and I was writing all that time but never showed anybody any of it. There…

— James Franco

Imagine if Lin-Manuel Miranda had tried to do 'Hamilton' first in Hollywood. They would have told him, 'The forefathers weren't Latino or…

— John Leguizamo

I knew that my newfound activism and feminism was going to improve my acting, because I was seeing things not just in…

— Jane Fonda

I've learned more and more on each show that I've done. I've been blessed and I've gotten to work with some very…

— Steven R. McQueen

We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how…

— Annette Bening

Most good actors you work with, they actually bring something to the creative process and to the script. They help shape the…

— Zoya Akhtar

A couple years in [to acting], I recognized that I developed methods from being a stuntwoman for so long that worked for…

— Zoe Bell

For an actor to be working at all is a kind of miracle, because most actors aren't. So it's just silly for…

— Richard Chamberlain

With kids you can take a chance but casting a guy at 45 is different. You don't discover somebody that age. If…

— Elia Kazan

The right costume determines the character, helps the actor feel who he is, and serves the story.

— Colleen Atwood

I wanted to be an actor my whole young life. My dad was an actor, obviously - he won an Academy Award,…

— Ed Begley, Jr

Ranveer is a great co-actor. He is extremely reactive and extremely responsive. He is a pleasure to work with.

— Jim Sarbh

The hardest thing about a musical is making sure everybody is working on the same damn show. That is the monster.

— George C. Wolfe

The next actor I meet that uses the term 'courageous' to describe another actor's performance is getting punched in the face.

— Dov Davidoff

I love acting, and I'm not going to determine what I do based on what I fear other people might think. I…

— Dustin Hoffman

There's always certain actors that are interested in certain things and other actors who aren't.

— Sam Levinson

The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced to see…

— Javier Bardem

I didn't go into this business to do action because I'm a classically trained actor. But I'm good at kicking and punching.

— Wesley Snipes

I haven't done much rereading or rewatching stuff I've written over the years, but I did look at 'Misery' before I started…

— William Goldman

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.

— Devon Bostick

The theater of my mind has a seating capacity of just one, and its sold out for all performances.

— Henry Winkler

I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.

— Ravi Shankar

Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during…

— Peter Stone

When 'night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway.

— Marsha Norman

I started acting because it was essentially the way I needed to survive and equalize my inner life.

— Ari Graynor

With a great writer and a great writers' room, it makes the job of the actors way easier and much more enjoyable,…

— Melissa Barrera

If I work with Shah Rukh, it will be as an actor, not a star. Whenever I have thought of making a…

— Sriram Raghavan

My respect for animation has gone way up. It's a truckload of work. I have to sit with my animators the same…

— Gore Verbinski

I just hate the idea of being well known. I know that is almost impossible if you're an actor who has done…

— Michael Gambon

My movies had flopped but discovering theatre was perhaps the biggest things that happened to me at 22.

— Tisca Chopra

I'm basically a dancer and cinema just happened to me, sometimes I still wonder how I could become an actor. My friends…

— Shamna Kasim

Audiences are brutally honest nowadays. If they don't like an actor, they have all the right to write him off.

— Akhil Akkineni