Actor Quotes · Page 99

It is very important for actors to maintain a variety in their body of work.

— Sanjeeda Sheikh

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

— Marlon Brando

I thought about doing '36 Chambers' on Broadway.

— Rza

Having grown up in musical theatre, I know what works and what doesn't.

— Michael Ball

I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.

— Adam Driver

Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

— Josh Peck

It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.

— Adam Driver

I think I have the finest body of work of any American actor.

— Richard Dreyfuss

I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild…

— Jackie Earle Haley

Any actor in musicals would probably want to play Fagin or maybe Tevye in 'Fiddler on the Roof'.

— Omid Djalili

I'm the third or fourth generation of actor in my family; I'm sure if they were butchers, I'd be a butcher, too.

— Sean Pertwee

The monologue is one of the most difficult and interesting forms of theatre for an actor to learn.

— Pratik Gandhi

But acting had entered my world through older brothers. It was a basic thing: all that just looks cool.

— Killian Scott

When I announced that I wanted to become an actress, my parents were dead against it. I had to put up a…

— Simi Garewal

Perhaps I've been perceived more as a romantic comedy actor, but overall, I enjoy acting in any shape or form.

— Jaime Camil

I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.

— Daniel Radcliffe

A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have…

— David Mamet

I saw my first two Broadway shows when I was 4 years old, 'The Lion King' and 'Beauty and the Beast,' and…

— Max Schneider

“Watch the actors who are on a very high frequency, very alert to everything and very much in touch with their feelings…

— Michael Beckett

The talented actor needs craft. When you do a stage play, you do it once each night in chronological order. In a…

— Martin Landau

I feel so lucky. When an actor that has been struggling for so long makes the transition into being an actor full-time,…

— Steve Zissis

I don't need to play villains or anything like that to show people that I'm different. I just want to be a…

— Jaleel White

I don't like to be challenged in the way that often happens, where somebody writes something and then you, as an actor,…

— Hugh Dancy

I'm just looking for things to steal [on working with great actors]. It's like going back to acting school. When you're around…

— Benjamin Walker

As an actor, you use the things from yourself that you can apply to the character.

— Robert De Niro

I feel like I've been on EastEnders all my life and now I'm playing King Lear.

— Ian Holloway

I'm a people's actor, not a critics' actor, and I always have been.

— Chuck Norris

Michael Cera was born in Canada in 1988 at the tender age of zero.

— Michael Cera

I've been calling myself 'just an actor' since I was 6 years old. That's a long time.

— Ari Graynor

Even at drama school if there was a part of some eastern European thug it would be me.

— Alfred Molina

When I first started out, all I thought about was my own acting.

— Son Ye-jin

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

— Bela Lugosi

It is very important for an actor to look physically attractive.

— R. Madhavan

Going to London at 18 to study drama and theatre made me grow up really fast.

— Kalki Koechlin

For everybody, the tide comes in, the tide goes out - if you're an actor, particularly.

— Alan Arkin

I think that's really the allure of acting for me. I really want to connect with people.

— Kofi Siriboe

I don't know how I could have an acting career with this.

— Connie Sellecca

I wish every actor had fame like Salman Khan in the film fraternity.

— Ravi Kishan

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

— Alicia Vikander

I didn't like the idea of acting back in school. Both my brothers were into it.

— Aditya Roy Kapur