Actor Quotes · Page 3

Acting is my love.

— Sonya Deville

I can always act.

— Liam Neeson

I was a theater nerd.

— Kathryn Hahn

Acting is always hard.

— Bae Suzy

Actors are a race.

— Mads Mikkelsen

Everything is theater.

— Fernando Pessoa

Acting just came to me.

— Hafthor Bjornsson

I was an acting major.

— Tommy Dorfman

It never occurred to me to be an actor.

— John Malkovich

I try to be a good, diligent actor.

— Moon Bloodgood

Broadway is the air that I breathe.

— Lea Michele

Acting's a job. I act to fill the fridge.

— Art Malik

Los Angeles is where I became an actor.

— Rory O'Malley

I had no intention of being an actor.

— Nelsan Ellis

I've been acting for 30 years. It's a grind.

— Kevin Connolly

I'm not a good actor; I'm sick when I lose.

— Michael van Gerwen

I'll always go back to the theater. It's fulfilling and there's an immediacy to it.

— Gillian Jacobs

I like to create an atmosphere where actors feel safe enough to take risks.

— David Yates

It's up to the actor to make sure they don't get typecast.

— Bryan Cranston

This is the theater. And this is the best place for the imagination.

— Matthew Morrison

When I changed my degree to acting, I almost gave my parents heart attacks.

— Jayma Mays

I was always sorted; I wanted to become an actor.

— Varun Sharma

To play Cleopatra on Broadway would just be incredible.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that.

— Justin Theroux

It's good to have a crossover cast in films. It brings larger audiences as each actor brings along their fans and viewers.

— Bhumika Chawla

Any time you cast an actor, you don't just cast that actor; you cast all their other performances as well.

— Sonya Walger

It was hard to go into the world and start auditioning as real actors. Having to pay bills was rather scary, too.

— Kaya Scodelario

Because I'd done 30 plays or so at Oxford, I thought that I was an actress anyway because that's what I was doing!

— Katherine Parkinson

Athletes and actors do really crazy things, and we do them under weird circumstances because we love what we do and because…

— Anika Noni Rose

Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.

— Adrienne Shelly

When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on.…

— Steve Guttenberg

“Indeed, good leaders were often good actors, able to convince their men if not themselves that they would somehow prevail.”

— Alex Kershaw

Although I performed in high school, my first real experience with theater was performing with a student-run organization at Vanderbilt University called…

— Nancy Allen

I grew up doing musical theater. So, I was immediately attracted to the music and performance aspects of it. That fact that…

— Chris Colfer

I think I probably think about myself as an actor, which is the way most people do. I think I'm good, I…

— Ashton Kutcher

I tell young people, including my own kids, don't do this, it's too difficult. It's a career full of rejection, disappointment and…

— John Lithgow

I'm happy in a silent world - well, not a silent world but one that relies on - I'm in a pretty…

— Guy Pearce

I try and imagine myself in situations and figure out how I'd have reacted and responded to them, and then bring that…

— Suriya

I think my mom is the inspiration of me wanting to do film and TV and be an actor because she loved…

— Rick Gonzalez

I'm very lucky that the children's theater in Los Angeles that I grew up with was me and Ben Platt and Kathryn…

— Molly Gordon