Actor Quotes · Page 52

Every Saturday I teach at my drama school.

— Amanda Redman

Every actor just wants good writing.

— Jeff Daniels

At 11, I wanted to be an actress.

— Naomi Ackie

I am a huge theatre geek.

— Sarah Rafferty

I have always loved Broadway.

— Melissa Etheridge

The stock actor is a stage calamity

— George Bernard Shaw

I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.

— John Malkovich

As an actor, your body is an instrument.

— Stacy Martin

The process of casting a movie has many complicated variables...

— Brad Furman

As actors you don't want to have one label. You'd rather have seven.

— Neil Patrick Harris

I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.

— Elia Kazan

As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.

— T. V. Carpio

Good acting is good acting, whether it's on stage, on TV, or in films.

— Cody Fern

I am the kind of actor who will do just about anything.

— Chris Bauer

I play a man who is obsessed with his own beauty, so it's perfect casting.

— Alex Pettyfer

I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.

— Aaron Yoo

I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole…

— Lisa Kudrow

With some actors, you can tell when they're acting all by themselves, no matter who else is in the screen.

— John Travolta

I feel that, as an actor, you're constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on…

— J. August Richards

'Body of Proof' was interesting because... I didn't feel I needed to prove anything in that audition. I didn't over-prepare it, but…

— Lorraine Toussaint

People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.

— Gary Ross

If you work with big stars, then they become the lead actors. It's not that I don't want to do films with…

— Kangna Ranaut

Meryl Streep is my favorite actor. She is so classy and a brilliant actress. Her performance in 'Sophie's Choice' just kills me.

— Brittany Curran

When I was at a tough inner-city school, drama gave me a friendship group. It's been so core to who I am…

— Wes Streeting

Actors can be very precious about their work and their scenes, but I think good actors have a strong understanding of narrative…

— Kristen Stewart

Even though I was manically overachieving and involved in everything, I still never felt like I belonged. That's definitely affected my whole…

— Penelope Mitchell

The basic skill of an actor is, in fact, empathy, and that's maybe not a skill, it's a disposition. I am an…

— Harrison Ford

I think therapy can be very revealing and useful for actors. You start to dig deep and understand certain mechanisms that you…

— Carol Kane

I definitely consider myself a Method actor, because of my training. I might dispute what people consider a Method actor to be.…

— Melissa Leo

Thank God, I have sort of a pan-European accent rather than Russian, which doesn't sound very pleasantly to Americans. For them, we…

— Yuliya Snigir

If you go into a bank or a shop and you want them to believe that you're going to shoot them, that's…

— Peter Mullan

Comedy, I'm still in awe of. I think you need a comic genius somewhere in the mix. It's got to be the…

— John Hillcoat

I don't want to limit myself as an actor alone.

— Salim Kumar

Once I committed to acting, this has been it.

— Ernie Hudson

I've always been in institutional theater.

— Sam Wanamaker

I have a lot of respect for the art of acting.

— Kelly Reichardt

I think theater ought to be theatrical.

— Tom Stoppard

Most actors hate the feeling of being handled.

— Joe Wright

My sister's an actor as well.

— Kodi Smit-McPhee

Acting, for me, is giving to your co-actors.

— Rajkummar Rao