Actor Quotes · Page 156

Movie stars are insecure like everyone else. Thats why they go into acting!

— Penny Marshall

All theatre has truth, from Theatre in Education to panto to Shakespeare.

— Clive Rowe

The American actor is very lucky... Because so little is asked of him.

— Sanford Meisner

I'm an athletic actor. I'm known for my action; I'm a guy who does my own stunts on screen.

— Akshay Kumar

I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.

— Griffin Dunne

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier

— Tony Randall

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

— Donald Pleasence

I always ask the actors, 'What have you never done before?'

— Courtney A. Kemp

The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

— Ben Vereen

Scarlett Johansson. I think people don't really realize how great of an actress that girl is. She's so beautiful and that distracts…

— Demian Bichir

I really hope that I can continue to do classical theatre - it's something I am really passionate about and I'd love…

— Seth Numrich

I wanted to be an actor as a kid, and a lot of people would tell you to be realistic, but from…

— Drew Scott

I think it's great that these little various skills I have seem to add up to something, because I'm not the greatest…

— Tim Minchin

It's simple: if you are an actor, people are going to be curious about your life. It happens across the world, and…

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and…

— Jon Pertwee

When I told my parents that I wanted to be an actor, they were like, 'How can you be an actor? You…

— Tripti Dimri

My parents are actors as well, so I grew up around that world. It was always a very romantic, mythical world. They…

— Phoebe Fox

There are movies where actors aren't characters but movie stars, being cool beyond belief throughout the whole movie. That is what it…

— Christian Bale

Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And thats the terrible conflict. You have to be free…

— Alec Baldwin

When I choose a role, I look for that spark that tells me it's going to work. Is the role fresh? What…

— Nivin Pauly

When I shoot, I try to feel the body and the face and the weight of the actor, because the character until…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

People call me a movie star. If you're in the business, a movie star is someone who can make a film bankable.…

— Peter Coyote

“He was on a wildly successful TV show on Disney for two years (playing a singing possum), before hitting the big screen,…

— Sloane Tanen

Being an actor is about having the courage to follow your instincts, and also having the discipline and dedication to sacrifice the…

— Matt Smith

“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it”

— Kurt Vonnegut

I'm not a Shakespearean actor really, or a Shakespearean director.

— Sam Wanamaker

We go see theater, we take in art, because it makes us feel.

— Steve Kazee

A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.

— Sophocles

When you're an actor, you just hope you get a job to go to.

— Kate Fleetwood

I know that being an actor, I'm a public figure and anything that I do will become news.

— Karan Wahi

After becoming an actor, it's the privacy that I miss.

— Rakul Preet Singh

For me it is important to mould myself as the director wants. That's my challenge as an actor.

— Javed Jaffrey

I love acting. I love singing. Eventually, I'd love to go on Broadway. I love New York so much.

— Stefanie Scott

Just do what makes you happy and try. Just go out and audition.

— Shanice Williams

No actor does all his own stunts, no matter what he says.

— Hal Needham

'Broadway Bound' is near and dear to my heart, as it was one of my happiest times on Broadway.

— Jason Alexander

My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business.

— Paul Lynde

The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.

— Joanna Kerns

I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.

— Harold Prince

I am content with the way things are working out for me as an actor.

— Regina Cassandra