Actor Quotes · Page 418

I hope to see more programming, more shows, more actors of mixed ethnicity, more young kids of mixed ethnicity choosing to be…

— Charles Michael Davis

My parents thought they were getting an accountant and a lawyer. Instead, they ended up with a PR and an actress.

— Gemma Chan

I did a lot of children's theater in Miami Shores. My base musical theater training happened there.

— Randy Rainbow

I'm always the interrogator. When I was an actor in rep, I always played sinister parts. The directors always said, 'If there's…

— Harold Pinter

As an actor, there's nothing worse than the sound of 'seven years'. I'm sure to some people it sounds amazing, but to…

— Claire Foy

I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be…

— Elizabeth Strout

If you play a gay role, it sticks more than it does if an actor were to play a murderer or a…

— Harry Hamlin

Some people become so immersed an a show, they have an image that the actor is not too dissimilar, but fortunately I've…

— Robbie Kay

There are a lot of actors who will watch the monitors. They'll do a scene, and then the director will look back…

— Ray Liotta

I think that theater is a unique way to communicate with people as they gather together with other people they may not…

— Pearl Cleage

I did a practical theatre degree, which I took seriously, and then told my parents I wanted to go into acting -…

— Shelley Conn

If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn't be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows…

— Anthony Hopkins

The reason anything happened for me at all was because my parents, on advice from a primary school teacher, sent me to…

— Simon Amstell

I grew up going to see my classmates in theater perform, always wanting to be a part of that because it felt…

— Melissa Barrera

No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what…

— Dabney Coleman

Frances McDormand is my favorite actor. I don't know if that's relevant. But she's a person who plays people. In other words,…

— Julie Klausner

I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do…

— Sam Shepard

Watching 'West Side Story' and old MGM films in the basement as a boy was a huge part of why I wanted…

— Mike Faist

I consider myself a 'local' actor in France. I started out in France, I went to drama school in France and the…

— Diane Kruger

I think when an actor feels like they're being watched with great sensitivity and a subtle eye and a nose for truthfulness,…

— Bennett Miller

There are only so many hilarious actors so when they cross-pollinate, people assume it's always the same actors and directors.

— Judd Apatow

When actors first come up, you're auditioning for everything - you're trying to sniff it out like a pig with a truffle…

— Bryan Cranston

I would really have liked to have gone to Broadway with 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' I was proud of that.

— Cate Blanchett

“We follow our scripts like actors in a very large, very long production. And even with no audience, none of us gives…

— Ann Brashares

There are a lot of directors who really need the assistance of an actor and they need the actor to come up…

— Zayed Khan

I do this because I'm an observer of people. That's why I want to be an actor. I'm fascinated by human beings…

— Charlize Theron

“You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the…

— Steve Martin

People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that…

— Gary Oldman

F. Murray Abraham is an incredible actor and has been for a long time. I've been watching him as I grew up.

— Cameron Britton

Egos are an occupational hazard in acting, but I don't have much of one, and my husband doesn't have much of one,…

— Viola Davis

I can see why there's a misconception that it's easier when your parents are actors, but it doesn't work out at all.…

— Max Irons

I think we're all guilty of mistaking the actors we've seen over and over again - we think we know them.

— Charlie Day

It's challenging as an actor to let go but I had some pleasure out of it too. To not have the effort…

— Juliette Binoche

[The Rum Diary] is a prestigious movie and it's got a great, talented cast, so they wanted to make sure they had…

— Amber Heard

When you're an actor, you're very much exposed, but in a strange way you're totally protected behind a character, behind a script,…

— Mathieu Demy

I try not to have actors in mind when I write because the tendency then is to be influenced by either their…

— Christopher Nolan

Well I'd really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he's still the most talented actor out there.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I love the process of making a movie so much as an actor that I can only imagine I would love the…

— Tom Holland

I am not an insecure actor, and this reflects in the films I have done. Yes, there was a phase when I…

— Randeep Hooda

I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other…

— Gael Garcia Bernal