Actor Quotes · Page 147

Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time

— Meryl Streep

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

— Julianne Hough

I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.

— Rhys Ifans

Acting was always on my mind so when the offer came to me I happily agreed to do it.

— Disha Parmar

Theatre is alive and it is now, and then it's gone.

— Kevin Spacey

I am an actor, but my most important job is provider of my family.

— Ian Ziering

It was a real sort of synergistic 'Aha!' moment when I started acting.

— Pete Ploszek

The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.

— Bernadette Peters

My face lends itself to austere characters, and unless they're two-dimensional, I will do them. Any actor will tell you that an…

— Charles Dance

My job is that of an actor. As long as I get to act, get some interesting parts to play, get to…

— Pankaj Kapur

An actor hears 'no' more often than the average person. A black human and a black woman on top of that? That's…

— Teyonah Parris

I absolutely adore singing, and I hope I'll always be able to sing, but you can grow more and challenge yourself more…

— Jessie Buckley

So I kind of lost track for a while, then I came back, I pulled myself together and I decided when I…

— Noomi Rapace

The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have…

— Rose McIver

For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.

— Penn Jillette

I'm hoping to do a Broadway musical on the life of Rasputin. He's someone I can definitely identify with.

— Ozzy Osbourne

I feel like it's really important for an actor to play different roles so people can see, "Oh, he can play that…

— Scott Eastwood

“On his early decision to become an actor: "I was very small, about 3 or 4 I think, and just wanted to…

— David Tennant

What I normally do as an actor in playing different roles, I just have to do in a span of three seconds…

— Evan Rachel Wood

I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in…

— Samantha Morton

If you focus on what you want and you persevere, chances are you succeed. You know, that's what I found. It might…

— Cory Monteith

I grew up in Georgia, and I started acting in plays when I was like eight years old, and I always memorized…

— Carrie Preston

It's odd, how those things happen to actors. A thing where you think, "I have no idea how to do this," something…

— Michael Keaton

In these interviews, they've been asking me for a while, 'If you could do a scene with anybody that you haven't done…

— Miranda Rae Mayo

I'm Rachael, and I just really, really like to act. But I don't think it's who I am.

— Rachael Leigh Cook

Before 'Coronation Street,' I was a jobbing actor, and after it, I'm a jobbing actor again.

— Rob James-Collier

I hope I get the chance to keep acting in great projects.

— Randall Park

The thing is, it was never a decision for me to never return to acting.

— Dylan Sprouse

If you give a scene enough room to breathe, actors will hopefully find those magical moments.

— Greg Bryk

I never stop. I don't want to stop acting because I'm afraid it'll all end, so I never say no.

— Allison Janney

My father Kamran Khan was a successful producer, director and actor in B-grade films.

— Farah Khan

I'm an artist - I'm an actor - so when I'm looking for something, I'm looking for stories.

— Brandon Victor Dixon

I see myself as an interpretative actor rather than a creative one.

— John Hurt

Remain true to yourself while practicing this business of being an actor. And it is a business.

— Carrie Preston

I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'

— T. J. Thyne

I have a theater background, so I like finding beats, working on things and having rehearsal.

— Kaniehtiio Horn

I think my high-school acting career lasted a day.

— Dennis Farina

At the end of the day I want to known for my acting skills.

— Satyadev Kancharana

I'm no good at acting. I don't want to do that, and I don't need to do that in life.

— Guenther Steiner

As an actor, I have tried to do new things, and that's why I have done few films.

— Anushka Sharma