Actor Quotes · Page 127

After 'Pink,' I wanted to do something that would challenge me further as an actor.

— Kirti Kulhari

As an actor, you're always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

— Kevin Spacey

By the time I had finished my studies at St. Paul's School, I knew I wanted to be an actor.

— Alexis Denisof

My father quite honestly played no role in my decision to become an actor.

— Max Minghella

Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.

— Nicolas Cage

But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.

— Vincente Minnelli

I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.

— Samuel Larsen

Acting was a godsend. I found myself because I loved acting.

— James Nesbitt

I love doing characters that surprise people and showing what I am, which is an actor, first and foremost.

— Michael Ball

Waiting rooms were made for books-of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's…

— Stephen King

I can't actually pinpoint anything that made me want to be an actor - I just did. And then anything after that…

— Colin Morgan

I remember being asked when I was in high school what do I want to do when I grow up and the…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

I love talent because they are passionate. They can be emotional and irrational and unpredictable... and that's okay, because all we want…

— Kevin Reilly

I got my B.F.A. at Wayne State. Moved to L.A. and got my M.F.A. from Cal Arts in acting and just worked…

— Deborah Joy Winans

I'd be lying to you if I said at 8 I went up to my parents and said, 'Listen, I'm going to…

— Eugene Simon

So I view acting as a thoroughly involved performance with the maximum of sincerity and devotion.

— Navya Nair

Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down…

— Adam Driver

I’ve done all kinds of cool things as an actor—I’ve jumped out of helicopters and done some daring stunts and played baseball…

— Chris Pratt

I do feel fortunate in that I am probably allowed more often to be a character actor then most actors are allowed…

— John Travolta

As I've gotten older and I've watched people in productions, I go to the theater when I go back to London and…

— Pierce Brosnan

I think directors can be a little insensitive to how vulnerable an actor is, when he's giving a performance. Part of the…

— Eric Balfour

I'm an older, wall-eyed, overweight, tweedy writer who has been lucky enough to be asked to play various iterations of himself in…

— John Hodgman

There are times as an actor when you don't work for two months, sometimes three or sometimes six, and the only thing…

— Olesya Rulin

There was this wonderful trick of going to the theater with my parents and sitting in the audience under the watchful eye…

— Tyne Daly

Through acting and film, I felt that my life had a sense to it. I felt I had a mission.

— Cecilia Roth

It's important to do research. I do that in every play, every actor does.

— John Gilpin

To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.

— Shia LaBeouf

I want to be known as an actor who can do all kinds of roles.

— Naga Chaitanya

I watch a lot of live music, and I love the theatre, especially musicals.

— Alex Scott

You know those actors who have a sense for how they should be used? I don't think I have that.

— Mark Hamill

It's not called the Theatre of Dreams for nothing.

— Henrikh Mkhitaryan

The more roles there are, the more actors there are.

— John Cho

I'd like to think I'm an actor who leaves things at work.

— Michelle Forbes

Actors that don't look like they're acting and stories that are told well inspire me.

— Hazel Keech

He used to send me pictures of the Broadway nights.

— Hank Williams Jr

Yeah, I like acting. I'd like to do more of it. I want to do it all.

— Johnny Paycheck

Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.

— Peter O'Toole

Honestly, I know it sounds corny, but as an actor, I'm just so happy to have a job.

— Elden Henson

As an actor, I want to do roles that get appreciation from audience.

— Vatsal Sheth

I wouldn't mind doing Broadway, but I am definitely trying to get a album out there first.

— Naima Adedapo