Actor Quotes · Page 38

The theater is the thing I love doing most.

— Judi Dench

I kind of fell into acting.I was very lucky.

— Mark Goddard

Don't be afraid to call me a failed actor.

— Rahul Roy

I am proud to be an actor.

— Rod Taylor

I want to stretch myself as an actor.

— Victoria Justice

Actors are con men and con men are actors.

— Edward Burns

Acting is such hard work.

— Brenda Fricker

I'd wanted to be an actor from the age of five.

— Ron Moody

I was trained in theatre so the seriousness was there. I never went in for the glamour.

— Rohini Hattangadi

I think all actors get scared because we're frightened to disappoint.

— Miriam Margolyes

An actor's career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.

— Parker Posey

I guess Ive been training in the theater for as long as I can remember.

— Kevin Spacey

The one overall structure in my plays is language

— Edward Bond

I'm an actor, so I'm never going to feel like I've done enough.

— Italia Ricci

The terrible thing about being an actor is that it's not a solo occupation.

— Peter Coyote

No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.

— Mako

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience…

— Stella Adler

I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.

— Anonymous

I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I…

— Amanda Burton

Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I don't cry. Well, you know, I think coming from an acting background that's really helped me because I more than anyone…

— Joanna Kerns

I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to…

— Bryn Terfel

You know, if an actor or, say, a basketball player writes a rhyme, it doesn't mean he's a rapper. You got to…

— Redman

I think every character actor at some stage likes to carry a film. It can be extremely liberating to just come in…

— Brendan Gleeson

Now that I'm acting, I've realized that I don't have a lot of barriers. Certain actors have a hard time with anger…

— Jay Duplass

The role has to excite me as an actor. It is like a train journey: you know where you have to reach,…

— Nana Patekar

You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of…

— Aaron Stanford

I have this dream of directing. But as a child, I wanted to become a wrestler. Like, in childhood, we used to…

— Varun Dhawan

I like to work and there's no movies for actors, period, especially black actors. When white actors are like, 'Man, there's no…

— Marlon Wayans

On my set, people have to respect the actor's process. I totally respect what actors do. I give them whatever time they…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare…

— Alec Guinness

For me, I love auditioning.

— Josh Hutcherson

I won't say I've closed the door on acting.

— Glen Hansard

I see myself as an actor with a love of music.

— William Shatner

There's no real theatre without taking risks.

— Haris Pasovic

Gendered performance is just constant theater.

— Christine and the Queens

The theatre community is so powerful.

— Rory O'Malley

Acting, for me, is not mechanical.

— Mohnish Bahl

Derek Jacobi is probably our finest actor.

— Nicola Walker