Actor Quotes · Page 125

I think every actor has their list of roles that were near misses. I've had my share.

— Michael Eklund

I really feel that Hong Kong is my home, and Hong Kong is my identity as an actor.

— Daniel Wu

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

— Lord Byron

I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody.

— Noah Baumbach

To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.

— Taylor Kinney

I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.

— Brigitte Bardot

The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot.

— Frank Moore Colby

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

— William Hazlitt

I've always paid a lot of attention to the way that different kinds of media affect how we see the world, probably…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

You act with your soul. That's why you all want to be actors, because your souls are not used up by life.

— Stella Adler

Puberty was the main culprit in ending my acting career. I went from being kind of this chunky little kid to looking…

— Jeff Cohen

I never imagined myself as an actor who would be in films. I always only thought of myself being in a play…

— Jennifer Lawrence

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a…

— Marilyn Monroe

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why…

— Wole Soyinka

Performing was always my thing, so when I act with another co-actor, perhaps that is why I never feel intimidated.

— Andrea Jeremiah

I can't really attribute my success onscreen to any formula and suggest you "do this or that" to make it as an…

— Ice Cube

Not every actor is a Tom Cruise. They are not all used to doing big action movies and doing sliding bikes and…

— Wade Eastwood

Acting is kind of a forced compassion, where you learn that given certain circumstances, you can feel and do things that you…

— Susan Sarandon

I remember Anthony Perkins saying, "Real is not necessarily interesting." So real is not enough. But what happens as an actor is…

— Susan Sarandon

The difference in being a good soldier and actor is that in the Air Force, you see results, and our worth is…

— Spencer Stone

There's a stigma attached to being an actor. People from 'Big Brother' call themselves actors. There's so much crap. It's not about…

— Nathan Phillips

As an actor and an audience member, it's important to remember that the future will further define the meaning of the present…

— Michael Raymond-James

Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various…

— Desiderius Erasmus

Ali was the African-American who exulted in saying exactly what he was capable of, and the bouncing-boy braggadocio of hip-hop is impossible…

— Elvis Mitchell

A ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts.

— George Jean Nathan

For me, it's important to continue doing good work and proving myself as an actor.

— Nikitin Dheer

There's nothing worse or more grating than a bad child actor performance.

— Ross Duffer

I always believe an actor is as good as the content as he gets or chooses.

— Rana Daggubati

I was a Shakespearean actor, and a well-paid one.

— Lorne Greene

I don't understand the actor that chooses to play the same role in everything all the time.

— Guy Pearce

I love musicals; I just couldn't book one to save my life.

— Cristin Milioti

I know when an actor is giving it his/her all and when they're just phoning it in.

— Ricky Schroder

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

— Vanessa Redgrave

I left the North when I was 21 to go to drama school in London, and I stayed there 12 years.

— Maxine Peake

It is mostly a spur of the moment decision to try out an actor's voice for a particular song.

— Gopi Sundar

Let me just make my mark as an actor first, and then an item song can be the second step.

— Daisy Shah

Actors are always looking for actor-proof parts. A part so good you can't screw it up!

— John Rhys-Davies

I just enjoy acting, whatever area - theatre, film, television.

— Michelle Dockery

While I deeply admire actors who deeply prepare, it's just not something I do.

— Rachel Skarsten

There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater.

— Elaine Stritch