Actor Quotes · Page 76

The terrible thing about being an actor is that it's not a solo occupation.

— Peter Coyote

An actor's career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.

— Parker Posey

I guess Ive been training in the theater for as long as I can remember.

— Kevin Spacey

Somewhere deep inside, I knew I had to be an actress.

— Gena Lee Nolin

Most actors are pretty adaptable because we work with so many directors.

— Kyle MacLachlan

No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.

— Mako

When you're talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet.

— Justin Bartha

As an actor, I probably fall into more of the sidekick/best friend/doctor/lawyer category.

— Keiko Agena

Peter Capaldi is such a brilliant actor, and his Doctor is such a wacky and wonderful character, I can't wait to see…

— Pearl Mackie

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a clown. I didn't want to be an actor, I wanted to join…

— Eric Stonestreet

Working with a good artiste is always a pleasure. If you get a reaction from your co-star, then you get the space…

— Nithya Menen

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

— Tony Kushner

I think theatre to some extent is always about telling stories, isn't it, and I think what I've learned is that freedom…

— Eve Ensler

I went to a drama club when I was little, but it was more of an excuse to flirt with girls than…

— Rupert Friend

I truly enjoy and love acting, it's a passion and is therapeutic for me. It is the one thing that makes me…

— Anupriya Goenka

The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at…

— Ian Mckellen

I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a…

— Adam Rapp

I'm seeing a guy now who has nothing to do with films. It's so much nicer with somebody who isn't an actor.…

— Kerry Condon

I've found a lot of the thinking in America is that a lot of people become actors to become famous. At least…

— Nolan North

The excitement of theatre is palpable but the frustrations, and the complete absence of a definitive evening - the play as text…

— Don DeLillo

One of the things that makes you want to be an actor, speaking only for myself, is that there's something infantile about…

— Colin Firth

“had read a description of this ability to act so well in public in Czeslaw Milosz’s book The Captive Mind, in which…

— Emma Larkin

I think that some actors who make it in Hollywood are very talented. There are some of my heroes, the Meryl Streeps…

— Bill Duke

I went to Catholic school, and there was this teacher, a Brother, who saw I could go either way, good or bad.…

— William Forsythe

I'm not a method actor. I can't even explain so much what I do.

— Carice van Houten

Acting was something I needed like air. It wasn't something I could walk away from.

— Wentworth Miller

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

— Tom Hiddleston

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.

— Helen Hayes

I'm at the National Theatre School, which is like the Juilliard of Canada.

— Jake Epstein

I don't have the passion for acting that actors might have.

— Jemima Kirke

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

— George Burns

Being a man of the theater and a hedonist, I find the idea of building coffins very romantic.

— Nick Offerman

Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.

— Amy Smart

My definition of a character actor is - they never get the girl.

— James Cromwell

I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked.

— Andre Previn

Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.

— Ron Silver

When I went to NYU, I took as many electives as I could in acting.

— Monica Barbaro

Since childhood, I wanted to be a hero, but now, I want to be an actor.

— Sunny Singh

Old actors never die, they don't even fade away. They're always available.

— Russell Johnson

A 'Looking' musical would completely bring me back to Broadway. I would come back in a second.

— Jonathan Groff