Actor Quotes · Page 16

Any competent actor could have done what I did.

— Larry Hovis

I can't not work - I love acting.

— Ayda Field

I'm an old-fashioned theatre major at heart.

— Tom Lenk

I'd love to do more theater.

— Robert Eggers

Theatre is my first love.

— Puneet Issar

I don't like actors, I like women.

— Carlo Ponti

My father was so against me becoming an actor.

— Wendell Pierce

I am not a greedy film person even as an actor.

— Manoj Kumar

The best theatre I've done, I've done right here in this living room.

— Jonathan Frid

Most actors love to get to the point where they're not auditioning.

— Rockmond Dunbar

Salman is my favourite actor. In fact, I look upon the entire Khan family with great regard.

— Akshaye Khanna

I've had so many jobs other than acting, it's insane.

— Todd Louiso

I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.

— Maddie Ziegler

As an actor, I am meant to dabble with different themes and genres.

— Sanjay Dutt

I never thought I'd play an orthodox Jewish man.

— Ato Essandoh

My work as an actor is limited by the voice of the director and the writing.

— Adrien Brody

I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying.

— Alan Alda

Musical theater has always meant expression to me. It makes me sit back in my seat and say, 'How did they put…

— Rachel Zegler

When I was about 6 years old, I got dragged into an audition for the school play. A teacher thought it would…

— Tom Payne

To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.

— Scott Caan

I did everything pretty cliche as an actor in New York. I read the trades, I sent out 'head shots.'

— Nicole Ari Parker

I know acting is not impersonating, but I'm good with impressions. I can do impressions of people I know, and people I've…

— Jemima Kirke

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

— Oscar Wilde

There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater…

— Harold Prince

Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those…

— Art Garfunkel

I have been doing this [acting] for a really long time, so I've come to expect things to take a really long…

— Sam Huntington

I started at Howard in the drama department. At the same time, I was a fledgling member of the Black Repertory Company…

— Lynn Whitfield

Theres just a big group of actors in London. There are new ones coming in all the time, who are looking for…

— Rebecca Eaton

For me, all you want from your actor is for them to engage on a deeply emotional level with the material. If…

— Andrew Haigh

I've always been lucky in casting. The trick in casting is to hire great people, and let them do what they do,…

— Woody Allen

I went to a very mean school and was bullied like crazy. I was a bit of a goth with purple hair,…

— Christina Hendricks

I've always been able to work as an actor and support my family and did great jobs, and more often than not,…

— Christoph Waltz

Local casting is just something I love doing.

— Benh Zeitlin

I did musicals from about age 10 to 18.

— Alison Lohman

Superstore' is, like, my fifth acting job.

— Nico Santos

Actors really should be tramps.

— Martin Milner

I've loved acting since I can remember.

— John David Washington

I've been around actors all my life.

— Freddie Fox

An animator is an actor with a pencil.

— Chuck Jones

I have a passion to do theater.

— Amy Irving