Actor Quotes · Page 21

Acting is not my language at all.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I'm a professional actor, not a celebrity.

— Pam Ferris

Acting is what I do with who I am.

— Harriet Walter

Actors just need each other to act together.

— Steven Spielberg

I'm not a big classical actor.

— Nigel Hawthorne

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress.

— Dorothy Parker

Actors will say 'yes' to anything.

— Michael Keaton

I think it's important to be a generous actor.

— Aimee Lou Wood

The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak.

— Iris Murdoch

When you go on an audition it's very frightening.

— Victoria Jackson

I'd be very surprised if 'The Greatest Showman' didn't end up on Broadway at some point.

— Michael Gracey

What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays.

— Israel Horovitz

I believe every actor gets some chance or the other to show his capability.

— Govinda

Being in 'Coronation Street' is only going to make me a better actor.

— Rob James-Collier

I never really thought I was a method actor or anything like that.

— Peyton List

The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.

— Andrew Scott

“She was merely an actress who had been forced to perform her part on stage without fully knowing her lines. She was…

— Erica Sehyun Song

The theater I got to do informs every move I make as an actor and will for the rest of my life.…

— Jim Parsons

I wanted to be a vet when I was little, so it never really dawned on me that acting was my career,…

— Jenna Ushkowitz

I live in Minnesota. Lots of people assume that if you want to be an actor, you have to live in Hollywood,…

— Chris Massoglia

I was in a movie called 'Flirting With Disaster' with Ben Stiller. I realized that I am really not a good actor…

— Beth Ostrosky Stern

“That would make a fantastic college entrance essay. ‘I Killed My Boyfriend and Still Managed to Maintain a 4.2 GPA and the…

— Robin Benway

You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or…

— Brad Pitt

I majored in art history. But I took theater classes, and every semester I was in college productions.

— Lucy DeVito

I'm not a very methodologically pure actor. Almost every time that I start, I feel completely at sea. Always at the beginning…

— Edward Norton

Musicals are not something I have had vigorous training in. But it's definitely something that I want to do. I don't like…

— Shalita Grant

I would never advise anyone to stay in the closet to further their careers - I'm sure it leads to big fat…

— Ben Daniels

Once you start getting big roles as an actor, everything pays. So what are you making decisions on? It's about the director…

— Chadwick Boseman

I have the cliche 'struggling actor' story. I was waiting tables in New York, went out to L.A. soon after graduation to…

— Pedro Pascal

I personally was driven to be an actor for the love of telling a story. It was very closely linked to being…

— Lauren Graham

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have…

— Stephen Lang

You can crack a joke and make a person smile but it matters a lot when that's on screen. It can be…

— Jitendra Kumar

I think every actor has their ups and downs.

— Mohnish Bahl

My father was a great actor.

— Stephen Humphrey Bogart

I don't have actor training myself.

— John Hawkes

I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

— Salman Rushdie

You have to be selfish to be an actor.

— Charles Dance

I loved working in the theater.

— Valerie Harper

I never wanted to be an actor.

— Moon Bloodgood

To be honest for me I just love acting.

— Joanna Page