Actor Quotes · Page 458

I started doing plays in New York while I was at Fordham, but I did graduate by the skin of my teeth.

— Betty Gilpin

As an actor, you think you know your craft, you know the conflicts in your character, but often you don't.

— Sushant Singh Rajput

I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same.

— Olivier Dahan

When we went to see the first rough cuts of 'Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence,' I fell to the floor because my acting…

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I am not interested in entertaining people. I think being an actor provides an opportunity to give people an experience they can…

— Cory Michael Smith

I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in…

— Ian Somerhalder

To make a career as an Irish actor, generally it's the case that you move to London. When you make that move,…

— Aidan Turner

In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people…

— Toni Morrison

Actors go into it because it gives us the chance to play people a great deal more interesting than we are, and…

— Prunella Scales

I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look.…

— Kevin Costner

My mum tells me, 'I always thought you were going to be an actor because you always wanted to dress up as…

— Harris Dickinson

Star Wars was one of the first movies that ever made me want to be an actor. Hanging with Wookies, getting to…

— Donald Faison

People often say that you should never work with child actors. I think that's all wrong. Children have not had the imagination…

— Nicolas Cage

I know there are actors we all want to beat up a little. I think it's important to do whatever it takes,…

— Ryan Reynolds

I always thought on my own that what is a huge part of being an actor, or what made me a better…

— Dominik Garcia-Lorido

The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or…

— Janusz Korczak

Dance Theatre of Harlem has done a lot of good things well, a lot of good things badly, and a lot of…

— Robert Gottlieb

As a professional actor, you have to do a lot of things and a steamy number is just one of them.

— Priyanshu Chatterjee

I'm cast for my acting, which is fortunate because when you're one of the pretty young things it can be difficult.

— Geraldine James

Sometimes casting falls in place easily and sometimes it takes a while. Fifty per cent of my job is done when I…

— Mani Ratnam

I'm an actor. It's like being a bricklayer. Sometimes I'm building a little wall, and the next time I'm building a palace.

— Corbin Bernsen

I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the…

— Joel Edgerton

As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where I think everyone can do the job and it comes…

— Katee Sackhoff

There's a level of confidence in the actor you're working with that really helps a lot. It makes all the difference.

— Christian Bale

I always try to keep the confidence of the actors, and try my best to make them feel comfortable or confident.

— Sean Durkin

My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My Father!' I'd never given…

— David Krumholtz

Many actors in films are willing to go to Broadway, and screenwriters are writing plays. It's almost commonplace.

— Marc Platt

As much as I'd love to be a successful actor, the thought of being recognised in the street is petrifying.

— Holliday Grainger

I always tell other young actors to go to school, or at least watch movies to learn as much as you can.

— Rutina Wesley

I love musicals, and I grew up with them, but the first time I thought I could really do this was when…

— Josh Segarra

When you're a child actor, part of you grows up really fast and part of you doesn't grow up at all.

— David Faustino

You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented…

— Ralph Richardson

I don't want to be solely a dramatic actor. It's such an important part of my quality of life to goof around…

— Patti Harrison

I have never been a mass appeal kind of an actor, so I don't have to worry. I don't have to please…

— Konkona Sen Sharma

There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see.

— Edith Hamilton

There is a bit of a once a soap actor always a soap actor thing, but I do think people still recognise…

— Judi Shekoni

Regardless of how dark and heavy the character is the actor has to approach it with that frame of mind.

— Tom Mison

The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.

— Oliver Platt

Directing a film requires a different set of skills. It is a difficult job, and I am happy being an actor.

— Mahesh Babu

I know their is no such thing as being 'perfect' but I do know that their is a such thing as 'actors'

— Jamiee Leen