Actor Quotes · Page 86

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

— Olga Kurylenko

Acting is something I've always loved and enjoyed.

— Shraddha Kapoor

My favourite actor is Denzel Washington, he's a smooth character so he could play me too!

— Micah Richards

It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.

— Michael Chiklis

I play a garbage man who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. Terrible.

— Judd Nelson

Like every actor, I am always on the lookout for interesting characters.

— Vikrant Massey

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

— Peter Sarsgaard

I got a chance to act, and I have to say that acting is extremely fun and vital.

— David Labrava

Death marks our careers as actors - it's often what flings us back into unemployment, the unknown, the insecurity that is the…

— Lela Loren

I had no intention of being an actor in the first place. But it all started when I was 20, and by…

— Arvind Swami

I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.

— James Earl Jones

I actually wanted to study acting in a way that not a lot of people want to do any more. And I…

— Baron Vaughn

I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy…

— Kenneth Branagh

I've obviously always been aware of actor-oriented films, being an actor. Altman and Cassavetes were really strong. And then I realized their…

— John Cameron Mitchell

There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

— Lupita Nyong'o

I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take…

— Bryan Brown

What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had…

— James L. Brooks

Tom Brokaw has friends who are actors, and yet he feels that, as bright as they are, they are not articulate. So…

— Mariette Hartley

From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell…

— Louise Fletcher

I like to work with people who want to make films because they are passionate about films and not because they want…

— Ajith Kumar

Leonardo is the most incredible actor, on the planet, with a couple of people alongside him. Getting to act with him is…

— Carey Mulligan

The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an…

— Callum Keith Rennie

I try to give my work everything I've got, because when you're dead or you're out of the business or you're in…

— Mel Brooks

If the theatre has taught me anything, it's that when things change in the body, in the body politic, in the body…

— Eve Ensler

I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.

— Juliette Binoche

If you're an actor, you get your eyes put out; you get everything done to you.

— John Mortimer

When I started out, I wanted to be a serious actor. I never thought I'd get into comedy.

— Charlotte Rae

In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.

— Alan Cumming

My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.

— Maximilian Schell

As actors we try to find different sides of ourselves.

— Alexis Bledel

I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

— Elia Kazan

I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star.

— Glenn Close

When I started my career as an actor, I had no guidance from anyone.

— Suniel Shetty

There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

— Salman Khan

I think an actor without life experiences is empty.

— Bhumi Pednekar

But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.

— James MacArthur

The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves.

— Thomas Browne

It's very good for me to remember what actors go through.

— Martin Scorsese

When you're younger, there aren't very many kid actors. It's a lot easier to get jobs.

— Alexa Vega

Why is it when a white actor or even a black actor does a British accent, it's considered art?

— Jimmy O. Yang