Actor Quotes · Page 5

I'm not an actor.

— Ezra Furman

I am a powerful actor.

— Kashmira Shah

Actors die so loud.

— Henry Miller

I don't miss theatre.

— Atul Kulkarni

The play's the thing.

— William Shakespeare

Actors are weirdos.

— Ariana DeBose

Acting doesn't suffice.

— Rod Taylor

I just love acting.

— Joan Rivers

Acting, for me, is not mechanical.

— Mohnish Bahl

Derek Jacobi is probably our finest actor.

— Nicola Walker

Gendered performance is just constant theater.

— Christine and the Queens

There's no real theatre without taking risks.

— Haris Pasovic

A lot of what acting is paying attention.

— Nancy Reagan

Bring It On' gave me my Equity card.

— Ariana DeBose

I have realised I am a director's actor.

— Suniel Shetty

I became an actor when I was 22.

— Sibel Kekilli

Whenever I get no callbacks from the casting people, I will try for the next one.

— Fala Chen

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

— Sarah Bernhardt

My father is a very theatrical and dramatic person.

— Viva Bianca

I was very young when I became an actor: I was 19 years old.

— Anushka Sharma

The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.

— Cameron Mackintosh

The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.

— Stanley Tucci

I was shying away from acting for the longest time - because of having such big shoes to fill.

— Dulquer Salmaan

My acting teacher in high school was really influential, and we still keep in touch.

— Brandon Jay McLaren

When I graduated college, I decided that I was going to try to be an actor, but it was my dirty secret.

— Frank Grillo

I see a lot of actor-bashing because they are the face of the film. Actors are just following someone else's direction.

— Varun Dhawan

I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.

— Domhnall Gleeson

In general, between an actor and a character, there needs to be a falling in love, if you will - which I'm…

— Ann Dowd

If you're not learning as a human, growing as a human, you can't grow as an actor. You're just churning things you've…

— Sophie Cookson

The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.

— Stella Adler

I'm really lucky because my goal, as an actor, is to disappear into the characters that I'm playing.

— Jessica Chastain

I am a method actor because I listen to a sad song when I have to act in a sad scene. That…

— Krithi Shetty

I did a film, 'X+Y', in which I played somebody on the autistic spectrum. It's a subject I didn't know very much…

— Asa Butterfield

The type of acting that I'm interested in, that I aspire to, is where I try and drag a lot of myself…

— Tobias Menzies

When you're starting out as an actor people are very interested in who you are because they want to know where they…

— Tom Hiddleston

I grew up in a family of actors. I grew up onstage. The choice for me wasn't, 'Do I want to be…

— James Badge Dale

I was fortunate enough to book a pilot, and we just got picked up for a midseason replacement for ABC. It's called…

— Kelly Stables

Today, the paparazzi are not just photographers: everyone has a cell phone with a camera. If they see an actor, they click…

— Ranbir Kapoor

Theatres are like sacred places - you hear the stories of previous performances and people who have strived to find that sweet…

— Jonathan Bailey

Good actors, especially when they know their character, will come in and either tell you in advance that they have an idea,…

— Denis Leary