Actor Quotes · Page 101

I decided at age 5 to start acting and I have never wanted to do anything else.

— Lois Robbins

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

— Uta Hagen

I think I am a good actor myself. If I wasn't a director, I would have been an actor.

— Priyadarshan

Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

— Nathan Fillion

I want to be an actor who always tries the best regardless of roles.

— Rain

I would love, love, love to do theatre. It's how I started, and essentially, it's my heart.

— Candice Patton

You try, as an actor, to wear a mask; you're serving a story.

— Mark Rylance

I mean, I've acted professionally since I was 16.

— Nicolas Cage

I consider those actors who amaze me are somehow less attractive to me than those actors who move me.

— Robert Lansing

A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.

— Laila Robins

I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a…

— Harvey Fierstein

It's so rare, especially as a younger actor, to find a role where it's not just one-dimensional and it's not just a…

— Matt Bomer

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the…

— Tallulah Bankhead

Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you…

— Lady Gaga

It's funny how you can say performing is in the blood, and if I'm considered a performer being an actor, then it's…

— Kelvin Fletcher

Dentistry was an ego trip, and acting is a personal need. Usually it's the reverse, and I honestly don't think I had…

— Larry Wilcox

My friends kidded me about going so far on such modest talent. I always agreed with them. I had no illusions about…

— Gene Autry

Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's…

— Christopher Walken

I do not comment on my client's personal lives in the media. As for Luke, he did so once, a long time…

— Luke Evans

You have to promote yourself. And the only way you do that is by saying no to the things you would have…

— Adrian Lester

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

— Lauren Graham

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

When theatre works, it's like nothing else, and when it doesn't, which is often, it's excruciating. It's perhaps not so excruciating when…

— Sarah Waters

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

So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.

— James Earl Jones

Growing up in an atmosphere of storytelling made me an actor.

— John Lithgow

I'm this dude that can play a farmhand and a handyman and sometimes a Greek god.

— Luke Evans

Part of the privilege of being an actor is the people you get to work with.

— Joel Edgerton

And since I have become an actor, not one person has asked me what degree I got.

— Charlotte Ritchie

To make this sound very, very unromantic, acting is my job, and I really love the craft of it.

— Naomi Ackie

I learn on every set as an actor and a human being.

— Sunny Singh

“I think acting is revealing to people what it means to be human.”

— Nick Enright

One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.

— Daniel Radcliffe

I think the better actor I am, the better person I become.

— Nick Gehlfuss

I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.

— Lance Reddick

When you spend half the movie wondering where you seen that actor before

— Teen Post

Theater is exciting because it is collaborative, but it is also exhausting for the same reason.

— Mark O'Donnell

All it took was one good role to convince producers all over again that I could act.

— Jackie Coogan

I'd rather be known as a good human being than a good actor.

— Dharmendra

I had been going on auditions and things like that since I was probably 10 - 11 years old.

— Regina King