Actor Quotes · Page 141

Sometimes, as actors, we feel like we want to hold on and control where a character goes.

— Corey Hawkins

It's developing a relationship with actors that makes it work.

— Richard Donner

I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.

— John Travolta

I just felt good working with peer actors around my age.

— Lee Je-hoon

The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.

— Marlon Brando

The hardest thing to do as an actor is to be simplistic, and to just be.

— Julie Benz

I studied acting in school and then, of course, couldn't get an acting job.

— Denis Leary

What I like about theater is its team work. Theater is also all-time creativity.

— Goenawan Mohamad

I think there's so much to play in adolescence; there's so many conflicting things happening and so many changes, and there's just…

— Alexis Bledel

“There is a perfect rout of characters in every man—and every man is like an actor’s trunk, full of strange creatures, new…

— Wallace Stevens

I'm a physical type of actor and love projects in which I can get physical. The more action, the better.

— Wesley Snipes

When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie,…

— Melanie Laurent

The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She…

— Marsha Norman

I was so irritated that people in Denmark considered me to be this serious guy who only did dramatic roles.

— Pilou Asbaek

I find human behavior really interesting. I think that's ultimately what being an actor is. You explore what it means to be…

— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

When I was 18, I moved out of home. I decided to try to be an actor, so took myself off to…

— Sara Pascoe

Just because my dad has been an actor, I will never say no to an opportunity to act. My dad has never…

— Ananya Panday

Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor.…

— Aaron Staton

A lot of the stuff you do as an actor - or I do, because I can't speak for everyone - is…

— Henry Cavill

The show was number one in the ratings, Gordon Russell was our head writer, the story lines were magnificent and the acting…

— Michael Storm

But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting…

— Amanda Burton

There are so many people who make their debut every day in B-Town, and there is no competition among a particular section…

— Asin

Everything about video games has changed. The writing, the acting, the visuals, obviously - everything has gone to a new level. And…

— Jennifer Hale

I briefly flirted with the idea of more stable career choices but they never excited me. I know it's a bit of…

— Karla Crome

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.

— Griffin Dunne

The first stage play I ever did was a school play called 'The Wishing Chair.'

— Zawe Ashton

I'm just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor.

— Chris Burke

There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.

— Sammy Davis, Jr

In the scenes of moral life the soul is at once actor and spectator.

— Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando

Everything that has come my way has moulded me as an actor and as a person.

— Sushmita Sen

Would I be happy just to be an actor? I don't think I would.

— Sergei Polunin

A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do.

— Michael Chiklis

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

— Rita Moreno

It's important for me, politically, to see that theater isn't just about the powerful.

— Tim Crouch

I have no hesitation in taking up more acting assignments if good roles come.

— Balachandra Menon

My acting career had ups and downs. It's been a mix of everything.

— Zayed Khan

The problem with acting is that there's really no control. You're at the behest of others.

— Leigh Whannell

There are not that many parts for actors who are not white - even less substantive ones.

— Cassandra Clare

I think it would be amazing to be a character actor and still be a lead now and then in movies.

— Britt Robertson

After being an actor, producing 'One By Two' was a natural progression.

— Abhay Deol