Actor Quotes · Page 42

Actors are not necessarily smart people.

— John Lithgow

Actors make choices for different reasons.

— Stacy Keach

My favourite actor is Mark Rylance.

— Charlie Plummer

And I'm OK being judged as an actor.

— Sean Hayes

I don't dabble, I'm good at acting.

— Werner Herzog

I'm glad that I'm not a stereotypical actor.

— Divya Dutta

As an actor, I just want to keep mixing it up.

— Jimmy Smits

I can never turn my back on acting.

— Deepti Naval

There are a lot of grey areas in 'The Cry' and the grey is what I'm interested in as an actor.

— Asher Keddie

I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast.

— Jared Harris

I'm not a very good actor, so I break character all the time.

— Eric Andre

I am an actor so I have to do my work and going beyond societal norms.

— Saqib Saleem

I would be happy if people just called me an actor.

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

I like acting. It is a well-paid job and according to some people, I am good at it.

— Milind Soman

I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do.

— Taylor Sheridan

I was trying to prove myself and be known as an actor.

— Jacob Elordi

I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a…

— Carice van Houten

“Criticizing an actor for being emotional is like putting down a swimmer for being able to swim.”

— Stewart Stafford

I've worked on jobs where there are almost 200 people on set... you always make an effort to have a relationship but…

— Gemma Arterton

I studied Shakespeare at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, and 'Orange' was my first audition ever for…

— Madeline Brewer

Actors are magical people. They can take words you wrote and say them in a way that, although you thought the line…

— Kenya Barris

I like not knowing what's around the corner. It's always been that way, and maybe that's one of the reasons why I'm…

— Richard Jenkins

At first, I took theater courses on the side. Then, theater became my minor; then it was my major.

— Jimmy Smits

Sometimes I think, 'To hell with acting' and then I realize I could be working at a shoe shop. Acting is much…

— Robert Pattinson

As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To…

— Kristin Scott Thomas

If someone's lying to us, then it's rare that we know that they're lying to us. It's only in bad films that…

— Michael Haneke

I'm not a method actor per se, but if I'm playing a character that, at its core of its persona, has experiences…

— Joel Kinnaman

Boxers, that first round, they're barely touching each other. And as a viewer, we're like, 'Will you fight already?' That's because they're…

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre.…

— Terrence McNally

No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park…

— Trey Parker

Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the…

— Jodie Foster

I don't understand the actor who plays the same role from movie to movie. Maybe it's because I worked on long-running television…

— Guy Pearce

I really love being a character actor.

— Missi Pyle

As an actor there are no drawbacks.

— John Malkovich

I even played a part in 'Miami Vice.'

— Dennis Farina

Actors, they come and go, you know.

— Martha Plimpton

I was a big Broadway fan for a while.

— Trey Parker

I came from theater, which is its own beast.

— Isa Briones

I'm an actor. It's my job.

— Brittany Murphy

As actors, you just go with the flow.

— Caleb McLaughlin