Actor Quotes · Page 122

Actors always want to play the villain role at least once in their life.

— Lee Byung-hun

I really did start a whole way of thinking about musical theater.

— Joel Grey

Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Acting, for me, was therapeutic. It was a way of expressing yourself.

— Ellie Bamber

Don't call me a hero. I would prefer myself being called as an actor.

— Vijay Antony

As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor

— Brendan Fraser

I recognize how lucky I am as an actor. I've been working as an actor since I was 9 years old.

— Sara Rue

I'll do more than the average actor, but I'm smart enough to know why stunt guys exist.

— Bruce Campbell

I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.

— Felicity Jones

People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show…

— Bruce Campbell

To be an actor takes a lot of courage, but the way I did it takes less courage. I was very lucky.

— Jeremy Sisto

People refer to me as part of the MCU, as opposed to just being this actor. Honestly, it's an honor.

— Jacob Batalon

I trained at a conservatory as a mezzo-soprano and was a musical theater major in college so I had a theater background.

— Scarlett Bordeaux

If I can make a career for myself after Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that…

— Daniel Radcliffe

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a…

— Fred Allen

Every time I see Anthony Hopkins I think that, to some extent, he has just been getting away with it all these…

— Liam Neeson

In a business like the movie business, you're going to have a lot of people competing. Somebody is always coming behind them…

— Robert Osborne

Waiters are like actors waiting in the wings, bantering whenever we passed each other on the restaurant floor, shouting at each other…

— Richard Eyre

Usually people in the acting business end up both in front of and behind the camera. Working for so long in the…

— Dustin Diamond

There's nothing I dislike more than being in a photo shoot where they say, 'Be yourself.' That's not why I became an…

— Margot Robbie

To anybody who considers themself a struggling actor, which is every single guy out here writing their own screenplay, don't give up.…

— Paul Raci

That scene in 'The Purge' where my kids, Mary's kids, are in danger was really crazy for me, because I suddenly... I…

— Lena Headey

Film, for me, is in two stages. One is when I write the script more or less on my own - that's…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

One of the traps of auditioning is walking into that room feeling as though you're a guest in someone's house, and being…

— Wentworth Miller

The key to acting is less acting and just reacting.

— Ken Marino

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

— Clint Eastwood

I don't think there is much left that I can explore as an actor.

— Jeetendra

When doing films, ones acting skills are polished, and the actor delivers a better performance.

— Gautam Rode

Acting is kind of a calling for me so I'm just happy to be there and do great work.

— John Leguizamo

It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.

— William Hazlitt

I never set out in the beginning of my career just to play female roles.

— Divine

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

— Arthur Miller

Life trained me as an actor that's why I'm so dangerous, even more than a live bomb.

— Ravi Kishan

Being an actor, it's my responsibility to do something for society.

— Binnu Dhillon

“I’m sorry, but this is musical theater, guys. Okay? You’ve just got to do it all.”

— Michael Sokolove

I really like to hear actors talk about acting, but I don't really like hearing myself talk.

— Michael Keaton

I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.

— Christopher Hampton

Acting is about reacting, and it's not easy to do that when you don't have a good co-star.

— Amyra Dastur

Acting is not very easy; the more you have worked, the more it gets difficult.

— Amrita Rao

I have no regrets. If I wanted to keep acting, I would have never left the cinema.

— Brigitte Bardot