Actor Quotes · Page 71

Theater helps people keep sane.

— Vanessa Redgrave

It's so rare, actors who are not vain.

— Sibel Kekilli

A lot of actors flame out.

— George Hamilton

Actors bond really quickly.

— Paula Malcomson

Theater has always been a huge part of my life.

— Noah Reid

I am not a television actor. I'm an anchor.

— Sajid Khan

My first play was 'Hallelujah, Baby!'

— Leslie Uggams

The first musical I ever saw was 'Ragtime.'

— Brandon Victor Dixon

I mean, I did a play when I was in eighth grade, but who hasn't?

— Bria Vinaite

I feel there's a really raw quality in the Chicago theater community that's really special.

— KiKi Layne

Once you are on the set as an actor, you are detached for three or six months.

— Jackky Bhagnani

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

— Christopher Walken

When they're good, I like working with new actors.

— John C. Reilly

We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.

— Antony Sher

I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.

— Kyra Sedgwick

I don't know of any actor in any television show that I have ever seen who's given monologue after monologue in a…

— Joe Morton

In elementary school, I was always writing little plays for my friends to be in. I was much more of a director…

— Lauren Ashley Carter

Normal people - i.e., people who aren't actors - are the most bizarre people you can ever come across. I'll talk to…

— Michael Sheen

Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off…

— Ralph Waite

So I never wanted to be an actor anyway, so I only do the films which appeal to me and my sensibility.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

Once you become an actor, it's important to take care of yourself. I live in Santa Monica, where I can mountain bike,…

— Mark Feuerstein

We lost Chris Farley, John Belushi, James Gandolfini, and we need heavier-set people to represent the real world.

— Paul Walter Hauser

I've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script,…

— Laura Haddock

It never occurred to me that I was a leading man until I was 19 years old. I had been acting since…

— Christopher Reeve

I knew I wanted to go to college and I wanted to study it acting, so I just looked for the best…

— Patrick Wilson

I always wanted to be a journeyman actor. I wanted to be able to do comedy and drama, classical and contemporary. I…

— Wendell Pierce

When I played the lead actor, it was a stressful job right from the starting to the release of the film. I…

— Jagapathi Babu

As an actress, I always felt like the people you met on set were interchangeable with the people you met on other…

— Brooke Adams

Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of…

— Edward Norton

I'm a writer-director-actor, which I've always kind of enjoyed. I compared it to the Olympic biathlon. "Not only can he cross-country ski,…

— Harold Ramis

A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content…

— Val Kilmer

There is no overacting, only untrue acting.

— Stellan Skarsgard

Acting is always therapeutic.

— Nick Nolte

I've grown to really love musicals, you know?

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.

— Kieran Culkin

As an actor, I'll take any job.

— Maria Thayer

As an actor, I like my films to be believable.

— Kay Kay Menon

If the story is strong, who plays the lead role becomes secondary.

— Sargun Mehta

Ever since I was little, Broadway had always been my passion.

— Kirstin Maldonado