Actor Quotes · Page 163

If it sounds good as you say it, likely as not it'll sound good when an actor's saying it.

— Rod Serling

My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I don't know why.

— Mathieu Amalric

I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.

— Dabney Coleman

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

— Gene Hackman

I loved acting classes, but it was very low key. Never a job job.

— Stacy Martin

I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.

— Stephen Tobolowsky

I believe that theater has to be utterly life-changing for the people watching it.

— Marianne Elliott

The reason I am an actor is because I have faith in myself.

— Kartik Aaryan

Comedy is far more difficult, as it involves improvisation and impromptu acting, and as an actor, that came as a welcome break…

— Divyanka Tripathi

To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.

— Rupert Sanders

Acting, it's very different. It's obviously very different and a lot more difficult than the modeling world I came from.

— Sarah Roemer

There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being…

— Wentworth Miller

There's some part of me, as an actor, that likes attention and validation, but on any given day, depending on the style…

— Matt McGorry

“An actor should have not one face but a thousand faces; like the phoenix which carries a print of each animal, an…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I think the most interesting question is, why do you act? I act because I have felt in acting some of the…

— Hugh Jackman

It is impossible to give a performance that makes you unaware of the fact that you're watching an actor and be really…

— Regina King

Before you start production, you have characters you have created without actors in mind, then all of a sudden you've got actors.…

— Charlie Kaufman

I think it's really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of varied…

— Liev Schreiber

As an actor, it's a relatively passive job unless you're generating your own content or writing your own content. So to a…

— Elijah Wood

Drama schools are very small community, a very incestuous community, so you get to know one another very, very quickly and it…

— Ben Schnetzer

I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form…

— Harold Prince

We did a lot of that in drama school: intellectualising and maybe justifying your position. 'I am a thinking actor and I…

— Michael Fassbender

I've been reading scripts where they've been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would…

— Alia Shawkat

I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like…

— John Cusack

One has to be honest to the story and choose actors accordingly.

— Boney Kapoor

It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.

— Majandra Delfino

I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.

— Zosia Mamet

I was trained on stage at NYU in New York City; I did a lot of theatre then.

— Michaela Conlin

I have a lot to show as an actor, and I will take my own sweet time for that.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

I didn't learn acting. I was still in school/college, shooting and then going back to studies.

— Riya Sen

Everybody looks after you when you're an actor, and you lose all sense of responsibility.

— Helen Baxendale

Actors' performances do not stand alone in any film, live action or whatever.

— Andy Serkis

As an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.

— Megan Hilty

I want only dead actors. That way there'll be no jealousy.

— Simone Signoret

I did a lot of theatre in school and loved performing in front of people.

— Athiya Shetty

I never ever had any plans of coming into films and never wanted to become an actress.

— Zareen Khan

The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

— George Burns

Dancers are the unsung heroes Broadway musicals.

— Stephen Schwartz

Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.

— Alla Nazimova

I got a BFA in Fine Art, and then I told my family I was going to be an actress.

— Mickey Sumner