Actor Quotes · Page 312

Whatever it is that you are doing as an actor, if it frightens you, if you're scared of it, you need to…

— Haaz Sleiman

And lot of Asian audiences and reporters don't like me to act as a bad guy. But I think I want to…

— Jet Li

It is impossible to give a performance that makes you unaware of the fact that you're watching an actor and be really…

— Regina King

I think the most interesting question is, why do you act? I act because I have felt in acting some of the…

— Hugh Jackman

“An actor should have not one face but a thousand faces; like the phoenix which carries a print of each animal, an…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

There's some part of me, as an actor, that likes attention and validation, but on any given day, depending on the style…

— Matt McGorry

There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being…

— Wentworth Miller

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

— Sarah Roemer

It was never my intention to be an actor, and I don't know if I'll ever call myself an actor because I've…

— Edge

I had a brilliant drama teacher while I was at Roland Park: Ann Mainolfi. But the school was mostly rich in academics.…

— Nicole Ari Parker

Never stop training, no matter what level you're at. Never, ever stop putting your talent under a microscope and asking, 'Yeah, yeah,…

— Jordan Gavaris

Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons I guess…

— Bruce Davison

I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like…

— John Cusack

We did a lot of that in drama school: intellectualising and maybe justifying your position. 'I am a thinking actor and I…

— Michael Fassbender

I've been reading scripts where they've been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would…

— Alia Shawkat

Drama schools are very small community, a very incestuous community, so you get to know one another very, very quickly and it…

— Ben Schnetzer

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

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

— Sonu Sood

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

— Denzel Washington

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

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

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

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

— Nick Mohammed

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

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

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

— Elle Macpherson

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

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

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

— Romola Garai

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

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

— Paul Morrissey