Actor Quotes · Page 106

I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.

— Griffin Dunne

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier

— Tony Randall

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

— Donald Pleasence

I like approbation. Any actor who tells you they don't is lying.

— Charles Dance

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

— Willem Dafoe

My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.

— Dylan McDermott

Even if you feel all right, tell the actors you don't have full power, and they will help you.

— Lars von Trier

I was born to be an actor and I haven't exhausted myself in this particular field.

— Prosenjit Chatterjee

I want to be in a musical. I love music, and just to be able to mash the music and the acting…

— Stefanie Scott

Actors always want you to believe something else even though that's the truth and to do that well it's almost a dying…

— Debra Winger

Every actor wants that - to have a great character and then continue to add more into the depth of his life.

— Ron Cephas Jones

When you have an actor on set who is playing themselves in a movie that is about the most cathartic, most traumatizing…

— Holly Hunter

It was tough: I had to kiss a man, and I got a mixed reaction from the black community. But I have…

— Ashley Walters

As an actor, if I show up late somewhere or I say something that's eccentric, it's totally acceptable - not only that,…

— Jesse Eisenberg

There is always a half-malicious curiosity amongst actors to witness the shortcomings of a novice. They invariably experience strong inclinations to prophesy…

— Anna Cora Mowatt

I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors.…

— Albert Finney

To me, being an actor is the best job in the land, next to being a mother and having a family and…

— Ann Dowd

Well my family is really supportive of it all and is glad to see me on TV or on the big screen…

— Kellan Lutz

I managed to get a short film with Channel 4 Films. I cast a young actor who'd done a bit of television…

— Justin Chadwick

In fact, Salman Khan is a kind of an actor who doesn't take anyone's limelight while shooting. He is a very secure…

— Anupriya Goenka

I think that I'm lucky in that, even at levels where I, by and large, wasn't making enough money to sustain my…

— Chris Wood

Tony Awards boost Broadway attendance and sell the shows on the road. They're the sugar to swat the fly. If you needed…

— John Lahr

As an actor, I look to play roles that challenge me and this did that. I asked to speak to [the victim's…

— Mark Harmon

It's been such a struggle to learn all that I have; I wouldn't want to give any of that knowledge up. That's…

— Drew Barrymore

Broadway found me. And I'm very grateful to have been found.

— Ariana DeBose

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

— Jean Anouilh

You know, I think I was always intrigued by theater since I was a small child.

— Bryan Batt

I was the worst actor, but here's the cool thing about it: I had no idea.

— Justin Hartley

You know I hate watching myself on TV, I know a lot of actors say that, but it's true for me.

— Rebecca Mader

I'm interested in the intersection of character and actor.

— Sebastian Lelio

I think that if you're a good enough actor you hope that eventually the material will find you.

— John Michael McDonagh

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.

— Bruce Boxleitner

As I didn't belong from a filmy background, I didn't know how to become an actor.

— Nidhhi Agerwal

Have you imagined me acting in a TV drama? I have, when I was young.

— Hyuna

I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.

— Sally Field

Show-wise, I love 'Little Shop' and 'Big River', 'Avenue Q,' and 'Spring Awakening'.

— Eric McCormack

The truth is I love musical theater and always have.

— Idina Menzel

Acting is really about showing up that day and telling the writers what you feel like saying.

— Tina Fey

I never really absorbed myself in a role like some actors do.

— Roger Moore

My plan was never to be an actor like my father.

— Alexander Skarsgard