Actor Quotes · Page 526

One of the reasons I love acting is because I'm so interested in other people's lives, and I often incorporate things I…

— Jason Alexander

I feel like this is the way I was meant to interact with acting. Which is as a director, and helping, working…

— Lynn Shelton

I wouldn't have thought for one minute I'd be doing British wildlife presenting when I started out in my career after stage…

— Michaela Strachan

In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill…

— Denis Johnson

If my son was an actor I would tell him, "Don't let people know as much about you as I let people…

— Michael Rapaport

I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for…

— Randeep Hooda

I wanted to be an actor ever since I was five. My grandparents - my mom's parents in New York - were…

— Lydia Wilson

I wanted to be just a normal girl flirting with a normal guy. It's like, you meet people, and they know this…

— Winona Ryder

I can act with either eye, but you've got to be twice as good as an actor to act with one eye.…

— Julian Barratt

Hiding my migraines on the set may have been my toughest challenge as an actor. There were times when the pain from…

— Morgan Fairchild

In a lot of ways being actor is like with any job, at first it's sort of like alien to you a…

— Edward Furlong

I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my…

— Anonymous

I, Tonya' is definitely a calling card for people in the industry to acknowledge who I am or the basis on which…

— Paul Walter Hauser

The role of a comedian is to go in and make something funny. That might be a situation where I'm writing, a…

— Wyatt Cenac

Life as a performance is just a way to look at life choices as character choices. Every morning you choose what to…

— James Franco

I always wanted to act. My brother and I would hang out all the time, and a lot of our entertainment came…

— Katy O'Brian

For me, it was a wonderful surprise because I saw wonderful actors being very professional working in front of me [on Chicken…

— Vincent Paronnaud

I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if…

— Derek Jacobi

I was genuinely expecting 'You're just a shit actor' instead of 'We want you to do it.' I realized immediately how much…

— Andrew Garfield

Being an actor, you know what it feels like to be directed, so when the chance comes for you to direct someone…

— Camila Morrone

I always say that life is not easy for anybody. People hear about the young actors who have a rough life, but…

— Johnny Crawford

I'm not a trained actor, so there was always going to be a certain amount of bringing my own... I was going…

— Mel Giedroyc

Lee Strasberg told me I had talent. Real talent. It was the first time that anyone, except my father--who had to say…

— Jane Fonda

I think most people think that kids in the business are brats, but you don't have to be a brat to be…

— Dakota Fanning

I know that actors and actresses have a great reputation for being very, very selfish, and in some cases, that's very true.…

— Laura Linney

“Damn everything but the circus!. . .The average 'painter' 'sculptor' 'poet' 'composer' 'playwright' is a person who cannot leap through a hoop…

— E.E. Cummings

One big power of an actor is knowing when to say no to something. It can be very tempting to say yes…

— Alex Lawther

I don't have a philosophy for choosing roles. Sometimes, it's just, 'This might be interesting; that might be fun to do.' There…

— Max von Sydow

There is an image of me in France that is a long stretch from who I really am. I read about this…

— Lou Doillon

Your mind can't always tell the difference between pretend and reality if you pretend too long; or if you go too deep…

— Annabella Sciorra

First and foremost, I think it's just such an incredible gift as an actor when you're presented with a notion of essentially…

— Nicholas Galitzine

My parents were involved in community theater in New Jersey. Instead of hiring a baby sitter, they would take me with them.…

— Jane Krakowski

It's actually really great to be a student and an actor, because I get to do this job that I love, then…

— Julia Stiles

But the fact I'm even getting to play a character that the producer, director and writers want me to play is a…

— Tom Burke

I think theatre is a democratic act and I think writing a play is not a democratic act. I think we should…

— Sarah Ruhl

Sometimes as a deaf actor navigating television and film, I fret that I am asking for too much or am slowing things…

— Lauren Ridloff

No one expects a Broadway musical comedy to be in the vanguard of what is bohemian, raunchy, folkloric, academic or aggressively experimental.…

— Margo Jefferson

It's very important to set your place in a concrete environment. I think Chekhov said that the important thing when you have…

— Roman Polanski

With musical theatre, although there are rules, they're so different to the ones I feel like I have accidentally been ingrained with…

— Sara Bareilles

People feel that actors are very powerful but I don't think that's true because someone writes the content for you and comes…

— Kunal Kapoor