Actor Quotes · Page 79

You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor.

— Mark Rylance

There's a fine line between Coogan and Partridge when he's in costume.

— Tim Key

An actor should be judged by his performance only.

— James Dean

I mean, to feel in good hands as an actor... it's the best feeling.

— Paul Dano

As a young actor, I was working much more readily and being offered more things.

— Martin Landau

I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like.

— Julie Andrews

That's just part of the blessing of being an actor: you get to learn so many things about life.

— Tasha Smith

I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.

— Damian Lewis

I started working as an actor, semi-professionally, when I was 16, and got my first professional gig at 19. I guess I've…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

I am the actor that I am. I do what I do. I've been a 'leading man' playing romantic leads for a…

— Pierce Brosnan

I feel like I've finally made it as an actor. I've been doing this for years and you don't always make a…

— Michael Ealy

As an actor, whether I'm playing Othello on stage or David Estes on 'Homeland,' that ability to give into your imagination is…

— David Harewood

Actors are not always the best judges. We have a peculiar idea of what we think we are, and sometimes it's best…

— John Hurt

When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department,…

— David Selby

“...if you're an actor, and you've thought your way into the part, then you're character portrayal will have authority...”

— John Geddes

I've never taken an acting lesson in my life, and it's not my chosen profession, so I'm flattered when people say I…

— Stephen A. Smith

You have to have the fire in your belly. I'm having more fun now with acting than I did when I first…

— Dennis Quaid

I think there has only been one time in my entire career that I've ever gone back to shoot a scene. And…

— Melissa Leo

Some actors actually think about what they're going to talk about during the interview - they read up and meditate and plan…

— Aidan Quinn

I always have a rule that acting is acting and truth is truth and you just go out there and you do…

— James Woods

My sister happened to look at The Times, and there was advertised the Old Vic theatre school. I wrote, I suppose, and…

— June Brown

When I'm working on the scripts or working with the other actors or rehearsing with the director, and when the director is…

— Andy Serkis

What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script…

— Laura Linney

You never know when you're taking a job, ever... but you try to take good scripts. That's all you can do as…

— Damian Lewis

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

— Henry David Thoreau

I sort of make believe. That's why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything.

— Elle Fanning

As a jobbing actor or musician, you have to take any work you can get.

— Johnny Flynn

Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication.

— Juliette Lewis

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare

— Ray Liotta

I toured with Andrea Bocelli, went to London to do a show for a year in the West End.

— Heather Headley

I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.

— Maddie Hasson

I took acting classes in my senior year in college and I loved it.

— Adepero Oduye

I am inclined to acting. I like to act and I like being an actor.

— Akshaye Khanna

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

— Michael Ironside

I think as an actor, you have to make yourself vulnerable to emotions.

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

I thought I was an actor playing a wizard. But really, I was a wizard playing an actor.

— Daniel Radcliffe

As an actor, I am careless with the way I look on screen.

— Anushka Sharma

As an actor, I look at first what I can borrow from what I really feel.

— Kristin Bauer van Straten

I enjoy acting and just love to do my roles - big or small.

— Pankaj Tripathi

I would like to have directed Hollywood musicals in the '40s and '50s.

— Matthew Bourne