Actor Quotes · Page 24

I'd like to do a musical one day.

— Fred Hechinger

If another actor gets a good role, I'm furious.

— Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I'm not much of an actor, I'm realizing.

— Nick Wechsler

I was an original member of the Actors' Studio

— Eli Wallach

I'm not a comedian, I'm an actor.

— Chris Diamantopoulos

Acting pays well and gives you immense fame.

— Rimi Sen

You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.

— David Mamet

An actor is an actor is an actor.

— Sayaji Shinde

The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last.

— Henry Cavill

I want to be an actor, maybe a comic actor but a real actor.

— Gene Wilder

Being a working actor, you're going to do a Spelling show. It's hard not to.

— Casper Van Dien

Every actor thinks he's underused - unless he's a movie star.

— Gary Cole

Working in film tends to isolate actors - it's your close-up; it's all about you.

— Kevin Spacey

It's important for me as an actor to be able to make a living.

— Patricia Arquette

I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature.

— Ivan Turgenev

It feels nice after a long career as an actor to find your own voice and support that.

— Shiri Appleby

Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance.

— Gloria Stuart

I didn't feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people's fingerprints all over that aspect.

— Gregory Harrison

Always had a passion for acting since I could remember, but I started when I was ten going for short film and…

— Megan Lee

It's weird but I've never really been the type to have fixations on the leading man actor. I've always been drawn more…

— Amanda Crew

If you want to really deeply touch the viewer or the reader, the theater might be the most powerful way to do…

— Ayad Akhtar

When you're acting, you do have to prepare yourself for doing that. You have to leave behind - or you try and…

— Asa Butterfield

All my career, I've said this: Critics and producers think audiences want actors that only present the silhouette and hit the points…

— Patti LuPone

AMC has a track record for finding actors who have been working actors but not names yet and casting them.

— Mireille Enos

I learnt a lot as a child actor. Since I had been before the camera, I knew how it would be to…

— Kunal Khemu

I've done so many jobs because I've had to, not because I've wanted to. And it's honourable to do a job because…

— Christoph Waltz

My dad was a lovely guy. I had great parents. But he was a conservative shopkeeper, and he said, "Look, I don't…

— John Kapelos

I think I have a tendency to overwork things. I have a hard time finding that sweet spot that most actors seem…

— Paul Giamatti

I didn't even really know who Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg were, and my parents kept trying to tell me, 'Noah, what…

— Noah Schnapp

I did my first play in fifth grade. This same fifth grade teacher asked me several years later what I wanted to…

— Heather Hemmens

I studied as an actor at the theatre conservatoire in Quebec, but by the time I got to my third year, I…

— Robert Lepage

As an actor, you want to be able to move your character forward into new ground, but also it's really interesting to…

— Jesse Williams

I'm acting with the best actors in the world.

— Jeremy Piven

What I want to be is an actor, not a star.

— Edward Albert

I lack confidence as an actor.

— Charles Durning

I didn't want to be an actor.

— Jim Caviezel

I like musicals that look more like plays.

— Alex Timbers

Work always comes first as an actor.

— Kat Graham

My favorite actor is Wallace Beery.

— Don Johnson

I just loved the whole idea of being an actor.

— Matthew Macfadyen