Actor Quotes · Page 117

It was great to watch Orson Welles, not only as an actor but as a director.

— Max von Sydow

There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think.

— Eleanor Tomlinson

When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.

— Pam Grier

What actor wouldn't want to work with Mel Gibson?

— Jim Caviezel

I'm a working actor, so I do pretty much whatever comes along because it's my job.

— Katharine Isabelle

Make acting seem real and as if it weren't acting. Just make it real.

— Joseph Mazzello

I never got a lead role and I make no bones about it.

— Vishwajeet Pradhan

I think it's my job as a young actor to watch adult actors and take tips on the way they work.

— Tye Sheridan

I'm a weird dichotomy of nerd, sports fan, and musical theater, so I'd love to do a superhero musical on Broadway. But…

— Taran Killam

You can be moved by a performance on set, but when you see it on screen, it does nothing. Yet there will…

— Helen McCrory

But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society…

— Janet Suzman

There's an incredibly grand attitude towards musicals. I don't understand why my profession is so snooty about it.

— Sheila Hancock

[As an actor] I have ideas, but things should always be fluid. You should always be ready to follow an instinct. Something…

— Michael Fassbender

I don't think musicals are my thing. I'm not a big fan. Definitely have to get on the stage and do something…

— Ed Westwick

So many actors say, 'Oh, I can't bear to see myself on screen,' but it's not true. Everyone loves to see themselves…

— Pete Doherty

Actors are players and if they're hot, or onto something, you let them go, or you and the actor can both get…

— William Monahan

The essence of our profession is to give. What is it that we in the theater give? We give our body, voice,…

— Michael Chekhov

The producers and I first talked about the Big Fish musical, right before we did the first test screening of the movie.…

— John August

When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied…

— James Earl Jones

Theatre is fake… The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just…

— Marina Abramovic

Part of being an actor is being able to contribute to a character's rhythms. If there's room to explore, you find a…

— Elizabeth Meriwether

Film and television were out. I was 24, and it went on until I was 36. For an actor, those are your…

— Lee Grant

I love the company of actors, but the crazier it gets, the more I've come to realise how valuable my time is…

— Andrea Riseborough

I was 11 when a teacher suggested to my parents that they should send me to drama classes to curb my disruptive…

— David Wenham

I don't see myself as an actor. I see myself as a storyteller.

— Costa Ronin

Actors are observers of human life, of human behavior.

— Kelsey Grammer

I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.

— A. J. McLean

I was gonna be an actor and no one was stopping me.

— Phoebe Dynevor

There's no one way of doing anything, especially acting.

— Fala Chen

I never wanted to be an actress who complained about the lack of roles for women.

— Kelly Rowan

I always wanted to be an actor. My father inspired me since I was three years old.

— Bobby Deol

At the end of the day, an actor is only a cog in the wheel.

— Randeep Hooda

If an actor doesn't believe in the film, the actor doesn't promote the film.

— Sajid Khan

My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.

— Laura Benanti

That's the great thing about being an actor, you know, you can just jump to different jobs.

— Matt Dillon

If you can get tickets, a show on Broadway is worth the effort and expense.

— David Baddiel

I think any good singer needs to be a good actor. You have to be able to tell the story.

— Erica Schroeder

I was very aware of being younger than everybody on set.

— Mara Wilson

My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldnt stand the theater geeks!

— Diane Neal

You're literally being an actor - you're pretending - and that's not what I like to do.

— Kristen Stewart