Actor Quotes · Page 359

I think everyone's dream is to be an actress, but I never really thought it was going to happen.

— Nina Dobrev

A career like mine as an actor has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes you wonder if you're not wasting your…

— Chris Carmack

Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person…

— Anne Hathaway

I don't consider myself a very good actor. I'm not bad, but there's not a lot of range in characterizations for me.

— H. Jon Benjamin

Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous!…

— Marie Windsor

Child actors going on to become adult actors never really works, apart from a few. Jodie Foster was the exception.

— Mark Lester

For most people watching 'Aiyyaa,' what I am down South or what I have achieved does not matter. They are going to…

— Prithviraj Sukumaran

That's kind of what we do as actors. You just kind of learn new skills with everything, and each time it just…

— Mike Faist

I love boxing. I really respect the guys and admire the guys who do it. But, I'm very, very happy with my…

— Holt McCallany

The big problem in translating is that we had to translate the language. People may not know that we record the podcast…

— Scott Aukerman

The love and respect that my parents have gained through their body of work is unmatchable. My goal is not to surpass…

— Shriya Pilgaonkar

Being an actor, and a villain for various movies, I've played all parts of Ravana's persona already. But as familiar as all…

— Mukesh Rishi

As a performer, you can't just sit around waiting for the phone to ring. You have to write and develop projects for…

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

“We’re only ever playing fifty percent of a character. The rest is us, and we’re afraid to show people who we really…

— M.L. Rio

I always remember is that no matter how good I might be in a movie, I'll never be any better. It's frozen.…

— Kevin Spacey

Both my parents were actors and they struggled, so I was raised with that. Being raised in this industry from a young…

— Camila Morrone

A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.

— Kenneth Tynan

When actors go onstage, you know immediately if they can do their job. You can be a lawyer or an accountant for…

— Patsy Rodenburg

In 'Reggaeton' in particular, I get the opportunity to show my range as an actor. I have scenes where I cry and…

— Omarion

I remember my parents were always around, and that was glorious, but as an adult and as an actor I look back…

— Phoebe Fox

When I choose child actors, I chose them for their personalities. And then I work with their own vocabulary, so I'm not…

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

I knew, starting in 10th grade, I wanted to be in theater and an actor. I went to acting school in Siberia,…

— Andrey Zvyagintsev

I think there's a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They're all three different things.

— Chadwick Boseman

I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons... Actors have no inhibitions, and I'm inhibited by everything. To be able to…

— Maksim Chmerkovskiy

It wasn't until The Sixth Sense that people started saying, wow, man, you're an actor. People didn't think of me as the…

— Donnie Wahlberg

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

“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

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

— Hugh Jackman

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

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

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

— Divyanka Tripathi

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

— Rupert Sanders

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 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

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

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

— Natalie Portman

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

— Helen Mirren

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