Actor Quotes · Page 89

“Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life.”

— Simona Panova

Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world.

— Cyril Cusack

I like to prepare for my roles well, so you can call me a method actor to an extent.

— Keerthy Suresh

I am not a television actor, so much love coming my way makes me humble.

— Rahul Vaidya

I never wanted to go to drama school. I thought that was too many eggs in one basket.

— Juno Temple

Thankfully I'm a better actor than football player, or at least I hope so.

— Ryan McPartlin

I find there aren't that many options as an actor.

— Rupert Everett

I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know?

— Stacey Dash

I would not want to do one-episode television - that's just a brief encounter with your audience. The arc takes the actor…

— Jerry Lewis

I like the idea of conceiving a show and putting on a show, and especially when I got to the place where…

— Bo Burnham

Every actor is different so you cannot become best friends on Day One. You just have to learn to know each other.

— Louis Leterrier

I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.

— Kim Novak

I went to drama school, where you learn to clown around a bit. You're walking around in leotards every day for three…

— Michaela Coel

Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot…

— George Burns

I started acting when I was, like, five in monologue competitions at this private elementary school.

— Josie Loren

The work for the actor is always the same. We're looking for a human being. We're looking for believable human behavior.

— Ann Dowd

I think as an actor, you're more like a dancer, and you have to use your body. I don't understand all these…

— Steve McQueen

I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I…

— Eddie Marsan

It took me a while to figure it out, but to have a real hit on Broadway, you have to get the…

— John Waters

As an actor you are supposed to do some kind of action in case it is required. I remember this sequence where…

— Pankaj Kapur

In a certain way, acting is an extension of myself. What I really am, I am not able to put on paper.…

— Keith Stanfield

I learned from master teachers at the University of Evansville, at Juilliard, at Shakespeare festivals all over the country, eventually landing at…

— Carrie Preston

An award, to me, means a bonus. It's not that an actor works for an award. I don't work for an award.…

— Radhika Pandit

'She's Gotta Have It' and 'School Daze,' I really didn't know what I was doing. And the biggest indicator of that was…

— Spike Lee

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

— Anthony Anderson

I spent all of my twenties doing theater in a little 50-seat theater with my friends.

— Cameron Britton

I have never taken my career seriously. My only ambition was to grow as an actor.

— Val Kilmer

But I want to be an actor who fulfills any roles assigned to me.

— Seo In-guk

I started doing visual effects for many years, and after that, I became an actor.

— Rana Daggubati

As an actor, I am extremely fortunate to portray Milkha Singh on the big screen.

— Farhan Akhtar

I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.

— Humphrey Bogart

I don't like other actors much. The industry tends to attract insecure, needy people.

— John Gordon Sinclair

I was the only person in a class of 12 in theatre school who played hockey.

— Noah Reid

Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.

— Sean Connery

I actually never got in a play in school. My teacher said I never learned my lines.

— Sissy Spacek

I love being an actor and a job is a job, and I'm always happy to have a job.

— Toks Olagundoye

I made the decision to take acting seriously after high school.

— Mary-Kate Olsen

The last thing you want is an injured actor. That, or having to use a stuntman too much.

— Wade Eastwood

I have always wanted to be on Broadway, whether on ice or on the boards.

— Robin Cousins

I wanted to be an actor because I saw 'Dog Day Afternoon,' you know what I mean?

— Martin Freeman