Actor Quotes · Page 104

I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

— Gaspard Ulliel

“There is A value In Viewing The World As A Play.”

— The PLAY OF CONCIOUSNESS

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.

— Joe Rogan

When I was a first year student at Julliard, I wasn't happy, not sure about this acting thing.

— Brian J. Smith

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

— George Bernard Shaw

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

— Orson Welles

Acting is such a strange thing, it's different for everybody.

— Gregory Smith

I guess I think of myself as an actor before I think of myself as a gay actor.

— Jonathan Groff

I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by…

— Conrad Veidt

Acting advice is a bit like your parents teaching you how to drive a car. You know they're right, but you still…

— Max Irons

Sometimes in the acting trade you are offered nothing to work like a dog, while at other times you get a fortune…

— Maureen Lipman

In the theatre, if you say 'Macbeth', all the actors will start looking very anxious. I'm so well-trained not to say it…

— Anna Chancellor

You know, back in acting school they always teach you, 'Make bold choices and look for activities that are interesting.'

— Mickey Rourke

The success of 'Bodyguard' is a tribute to the magnetism of our two leads, Richard Madden and Keeley Hawes.

— Jed Mercurio

I've learned to take jobs as an actress that is meaningful to me because I've never taken a job for the money.

— Emmy Rossum

Fuzzy thinking leads to hesitancy in acting. Clear thinking makes it easier to act boldly and consistently.

— Steve Pavlina

What's interesting for me is that I generally consider myself to be more of a physical actor, and I'm somebody that doesn't…

— Francois Cluzet

I spent a lot of time in college studying theater of the absurd and Beckett and Genet, and then I spent a…

— Betty Gilpin

As an actor playing a role, you are asked to visit certain sides of yourself day after day, night after night. If…

— Adrian Lester

My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my…

— Gale Harold

I've learned a lot throughout the years that I've worked with all these great actors and everything. One of the biggest things…

— Josh Hutcherson

It has to be really interesting for me to perform the same role for 365 days non-stop. It becomes taxing for an…

— Karishma Tanna

It's like, sometimes I'll watch a movie, and it's got some big star in it playing a working-class person, and the character…

— Winona Ryder

The only reason I'm in 'Kingsman' is because Matthew enjoys playing with the unexpected. I'm not playing Harry Hart because I'm the…

— Colin Firth

As an actor, anything that you have to help get you into character is helpful.

— Scarlett Johansson

I was never an actress -- none of us kids at Metro were. We were just good to look at.

— Ava Gardner

I did a lot of Shakespeare touring when I was in college in Montana.

— Bill Pullman

I think, at the end of the day, if youre a good actor, then youre a good actor.

— John Benjamin Hickey

I would probably go so far as to say that I couldn't act before I met Richard Ayoade.

— Craig Roberts

I've actually had a great career in Hollywood. I've been a working actor my whole life.

— Dante Basco

Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and it's a very strange one.

— Philip Glenister

Marriage is hard, and it can be tough when you're both actors.

— Sarah Parish

I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.

— Liev Schreiber

I'm the only actress in Hollywood who didn't pay to have these lips.

— Sandra Bernhard

I don't act to prove anything to anyone. I like acting. It is the only profession I know.

— Atul Kulkarni

Shahrukh taught me an important lesson - acting cannot be taught; it has to be experienced.

— Vatsal Sheth

I grew up in the theater, went to school for directing and playwriting.

— Jerrika Hinton

It's a wonderful thing to watch an actor just act.

— Mike Flanagan

I never understood actors who could just wait around.

— Scott Eastwood

I was doing community theater since I was about nine.

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner