Actor Quotes · Page 159

I believe a good actor does not have an accent of his own.

— Mukul Dev

To be an actor wasn't something that seemed realistic. I started late; I was about 19.

— Diego Klattenhoff

I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.

— Cate Blanchett

As an actor, you tend to just look at the script till you get to your stuff.

— Melanie Scrofano

Before I even wanted to be an actor, I wanted to be a figure skater.

— Allison Janney

My father Arun Ahuja was an actor, and he did films as a hero.

— Govinda

To spend time with Ed Harris... he's an acting hero of mine, so that's a big deal for me.

— Jim Sturgess

I was joking with my agent that I'm going to get typecast for a water-disaster actor.

— Tom Holland

It wasn't until The Sixth Sense that people started saying, wow, man, you're an actor. People didn't think of me as the…

— Donnie Wahlberg

I think there's a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They're all three different things.

— Chadwick Boseman

I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons... Actors have no inhibitions, and I'm inhibited by everything. To be able to…

— Maksim Chmerkovskiy

When I choose child actors, I chose them for their personalities. And then I work with their own vocabulary, so I'm not…

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

I knew, starting in 10th grade, I wanted to be in theater and an actor. I went to acting school in Siberia,…

— Andrey Zvyagintsev

That's kind of what we do as actors. You just kind of learn new skills with everything, and each time it just…

— Mike Faist

A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.

— Kenneth Tynan

When actors go onstage, you know immediately if they can do their job. You can be a lawyer or an accountant for…

— Patsy Rodenburg

Initially, I had started doing theater, where the actor has a direct relationship to the audience. So, moving into film and television…

— Matthew Davis

The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in…

— Adrianne Palicki

I think the main thing that I would say from drama school, the problem that I have with it is it can…

— Aimee Lou Wood

I went to college and did theatre. After that, I spent about three years in Seattle doing French theater and community theater…

— Darby Stanchfield

I think it's interesting playing characters who are flawed and make mistakes because we all have - no one's just one thing…

— Alexandra Daddario

I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind…

— Charlize Theron

I did 'Lonely Hearts' with John Travolta and James Gandolfini. Talk about getting over your fears. These guys were amazing! Also, Cuba…

— Christa Campbell

The biggest thing about me, as an actor, is I'm never a finished product, you know? I always want to try something…

— Aneurin Barnard

That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.

— Bruce Boxleitner

I started out fighting before I was acting, actually, then got hurt and got into the acting.

— Mickey Rourke

I've always done pretty well in auditions. I just go in and give it my best shot.

— Ariel Winter

I didn't start acting until I was in college, which was in the 70's.

— Ray Liotta

The journey that we go on as actors is an interesting one and sometimes a revealing one.

— Kevin Spacey

It's sacred for an actor to keep their personal life personal.

— Jennifer Carpenter

I was a young actor in my 20s, going out in Soho, having a wild time.

— David Thewlis

My daughter told me that she wants to become an actor even before she learnt to speak properly.

— Supriya Pathak

Actors love to do good work irrespective of country and borders.

— Mahira Khan

When actors aren't filming they just go to their dressing rooms and relax.

— Daniel Radcliffe

My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.

— Yael Stone

I'm an actor, learning lines and saying them in the right order.

— James Nesbitt

I think actors always find the dialogue doesn't quite fit, so you always have to play with it.

— Felicity Jones

He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.

— Madeleine Stowe

Once, he was chosen to play Ram in a small Ramleela company, but his parents were against it.

— Raj Kapoor

I knew from the time I could walk that I wanted to be an actor.

— Joely Fisher