Actor Quotes · Page 134

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

— Fred Allen

I'm not an actor. I leave proper acting to proper actors.

— Lee Evans

Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard.

— Sandra Oh

Acting isn't being who you are on screen. It's pretending that you're someone else.

— Margaret Hoover

The musicals that I love on stage are generally meant for the stage.

— Joss Whedon

I've just gotten to do a lot of very different things, and as an actor, that's what you want.

— Lee Norris

I couldn't do an acting job just to be working. It really had to have some soul to it.

— Marcia Cross

And for me I think I was originally a theater person, a producer/director/actor.

— Emma Walton Hamilton

The more experiences you can have as an individual makes you a fuller person and a fuller actor.

— Dominik Garcia-Lorido

When I made 'Hard Boiled,' I had no idea that it would be released to an international audience. I just wanted to…

— John Woo

Acting will always be my first passion, it's what I live to do and I hope to be lucky enough to do…

— Devon Werkheiser

For me acting is pretending. It's illuminating my human struggle - trying to grow and have the courage to be filmed while…

— Sherilyn Fenn

I realised success as an actor alone wouldn't make me happy. I needed to explore my spiritual side in more depth.

— Linus Roache

Broadway was very vital back in the '20s. There were probably close to hundreds of productions that opened up through the course…

— George C. Wolfe

At NSD, I had an amazing experience learning everything from stagecraft to western drama and Shakespeare, Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekov.

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

I've always known I wanted to be an actress. I didn't know quite how I was going to get there because I…

— Danielle Brooks

I think when you're younger, as an actor you have much more of a notion that you are doing something to the…

— Peter Riegert

I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should…

— Donald E. Westlake

Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it's a story that's on a stage, but there's a different sort of…

— Amy Bloom

I get a lot of butterflies at auditions because I get so scared. It's scary because you've never met the people before.…

— Elle Fanning

The hardest thing for me to do, and the best thing I've done and learned as an actor is to sacrifice being…

— Jonah Hill

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the…

— Ralph Fiennes

I think it would be really cool to see 'Enchanted' on Broadway - there's been discussion of it from time to time.…

— Stephen Schwartz

So often gay characters, particular those portrayed in an era where gayness was something of a taboo and a statement about 'who…

— Freddie Fox

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

— Anonymous

In this theatre that I call my soul, I always play the starring role.

— The Police

Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.

— Al Pacino

Films were just a profession. The moment I step into the house the actor in me disappears.

— Sowcar Janaki

It's fun matching steps with younger actors. It gives me the confidence to keep going.

— Prabhu Deva

I think every star was a new actor at one point of time.

— Ram Gopal Varma

I want to be so strong as an actor that people wouldn't say... eh, that's Josh Lucas

— Josh Lucas

Actors don't really get into their stride until they're in their late 30s and 40s.

— Orlando Bloom

As soon as you get two actors in a room and they're locking eyes, they're doing a scene.

— Martin Freeman

I am at a stage where I want to be known as a versatile actor.

— Kajal Aggarwal

I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.

— Michael Douglas

I am not a comedian, I am an actor, and what makes an actor brilliant is his versatility.

— Binnu Dhillon

I think if you're an actor you kind of have to be willing to look stupid.

— Heather Graham

When I was a kid, I think I wanted to be Arnold Schwarzenegger.

— Lucas Till

I want to be a good actor more than anything - someone you can respect.

— Logan Lerman

I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.

— Taylor Sheridan