Actor Quotes · Page 128

Acting is therapy. It keeps you in contact with your feelings.

— Diego Luna

Character actors aren't a brand in the same way that high-profile leading men are.

— Alfred Molina

I saw a play in a black box theatre, and it changed my life.

— Geneva Carr

I think the life of an actor is very glamorous to other people - then, realities set in.

— Joel Edgerton

As an actor you have to have the room to play and find the character.

— Simone Missick

If I wasn't an actor, I'd probably be working in journalism.

— Sophia Bush

What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'

— Nathan Lane

I'm growing as an actor and performer every week.

— Allison Holker

Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who…

— Martin Freeman

As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms…

— Tim Crouch

I generally won't give importance to language barriers. If I feel an actor will fit into the role I will approach.

— Thiagarajan Kumararaja

I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.

— Dennis Quaid

For a few years, there were three shows running on Broadway that I had all opened: 'Chicago,' 'Wicked' and 'Anything Goes.'

— Joel Grey

It was great as an actor to be given the story line I was given but I didn't expect Craig to stay…

— Richard Fleeshman

I moved to New York City in '92 and had no money. I had a lot of free time, as actors do.…

— Denis O'Hare

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I've always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become…

— Dwayne Johnson

As actors you're always afraid to go too far but Lasse Hallstrom wants you to go too far. He wants you to…

— Channing Tatum

t is for me because I needed to do this. I really think actors shouldn't act unless they really need it in…

— John Leguizamo

You're just constantly outputting, and giving all you know so you don't have time to look inside of yourself and to really…

— Fala Chen

The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

You have the script in front of you. It doesn't involve your body. It's all about your voice. And its fast work.…

— Jane Lynch

Oftentimes, actors don't have the luxury of picking their part. You go from one project to the next, and you hope that…

— Michael Trucco

Every job I've had since 'Smallville' has wanted me to have red hair, so I have to thank 'Smallville' for that. But,…

— Cassidy Freeman

The first part of my life was to be an actor and maybe have some success at that. Then [it was time]…

— Michael J. Fox

Just observing - that's the best skill of all for an actor!

— Richard McCabe

What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.

— D. B. Sweeney

As an actor, I am not comfortable with an artificial beard.

— Pankaj Kapur

Being on 'Batman' allowed me to do something we actors are taught never to do: overact.

— Victor Buono

I enjoy being in movies, but my heart will always lie with the theatre.

— Steven Berkoff

The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.

— Richard Burton

I felt something like a sense of achievement while acting.

— Sulli

I could only hope and pray that I could have a career like Mark Wahlberg.

— Kellan Lutz

When I read 'Be real, don't get caught acting,' I thought, 'How the hell do you do that?'.

— Billy Connolly

Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.

— Donal Logue

It's difficult sometimes to become friends with actors.

— Andie MacDowell

I'm the first to admit that I never achieved my potential as an actress.

— Evelyn Keyes

Gabriel Byrne is just an amazing fellow and an amazing actor.

— Travis Fimmel

To a certain extent I suppose all actors are big kids.

— Dominic Cooper

Of course being in movies is very exciting, and it's a wonderful thing for an actor to do.

— Kayvan Novak

Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director.

— Angelina Jolie