When you first start, you just want to get a job. It goes from that to really deciding what kind of work… — Janet Montgomery Copy Share Image
I know that I've had a very fortunate life, but also I think my job as an actor is to connect emotionally… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I'd turned 50 and had been in the business 25 years that I realized I might actually have a… — James Garner Copy Share Image
As an actor, you want to do different things. You don't want to do same kind of stuff. I like the characters… — Waheeda Rehman Copy Share Image
My mom suggested studying acting in college, but I was a bit scared to choose that path because I couldn't wrap my… — Karen Fukuhara Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I always was like, 'I want to be a serious actor.' I wasn't interested in doing a Disney… — Spencer Boldman Copy Share Image
It was great as an actor to be given the story line I was given but I didn't expect Craig to stay… — Richard Fleeshman Copy Share Image
I moved to New York City in '92 and had no money. I had a lot of free time, as actors do.… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
An actor is nothing without the vision of the director. The director needs to have a vision that will cross boundaries, that… — Manoj Bajpayee Copy Share Image
I know a lot of really good actors - tons, just tons - who I still don't know why they don't work… — Kevin Dillon Copy Share Image
Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
I suppose there are actors who are worried about their public image. But I've never had any trouble playing unpleasant characters. It… — Aidan Gillen Copy Share Image
I didn't know anything about acting, I didn't know anything about theater, but I was just an exceptional student at high school.… — Louis Gossett, Jr Copy Share Image
When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and my… — Alexander Ludwig Copy Share Image
“In their opinion, a tragedy with so little plot could not conform with the rules of drama. I enquired whether they were… — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I've always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how. — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
For a few years, there were three shows running on Broadway that I had all opened: 'Chicago,' 'Wicked' and 'Anything Goes.' — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms… — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image
I generally won't give importance to language barriers. If I feel an actor will fit into the role I will approach. — Thiagarajan Kumararaja Copy Share Image
The world is a theatre. Everyone is playing their roles. You play your role best and everything will happen appropriately. — Kshitij Roshan Copy Share Image
The actors I admire always have something to say, or a level of poetry, belief, activism or intelligence about what they do… — Zawe Ashton Copy Share Image
When I do scenes with Alec Baldwin, he just stares at my boobs. That's how good of an actor he is, he… — Jane Krakowski Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be one of those actors who could change from character to character, like Daniel Day Lewis or Jeffrey… — Kevin Daniels Copy Share Image
I'd been playing the piano since I was 6 and wanted to be a composer, but I also wanted to be an… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
It's part of your job as an actor to put your personal problems behind you and work. Good actors can do that. — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work… — Dan Stevens Copy Share Image
There was not an industry for child actors. I never really made any money. It was all about fun for me. — Michiel Huisman Copy Share Image
I think acting for sure takes a lot of dedication, especially when you're starting out, because it's so much rejection and it's… — Bitsie Tulloch Copy Share Image
Now I'm 18, I'm about to turn 19 - I'll get a script for, like, a college frat boy type, and if… — Skyler Gisondo Copy Share Image
But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in. — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
When I was I kid, there were so many different things that I wanted to be. As an actor, I get a… — Navid Negahban Copy Share Image
Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role,… — Pamela Adlon Copy Share Image
I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different shit, you know what I mean? — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
The more experiences you can have as an individual makes you a fuller person and a fuller actor. — Dominik Garcia-Lorido Copy Share Image
When I made 'Hard Boiled,' I had no idea that it would be released to an international audience. I just wanted to… — John Woo Copy Share Image
