Actor Quotes · Page 164

I can't do TV; I think I'll die as an actor first and then as a person.

— Kirti Kulhari

Since I got out of grad school at NYU, I've always done as many plays as I can.

— Marin Hinkle

I've done a lot of Broadway plays, and I'm fortunate they've all been so successful.

— John Benjamin Hickey

“Is this what school was like in the United States? It was like theater.”

— Cristina Henriquez

Maybe it's a personality thing individual to me, but actors always benefit from body awareness.

— Kristin Lehman

I was aiming for an acting career in 40. I never thought I would get recognition so early.

— Abhishek Banerjee

As an actor, my body is my tool to flesh out the roles I play.

— Parvathy

There are worse things than death. Many of them playing at a theater near you.

— Woody Allen

Sondheim writes the music and lyrics, and because he's so smart and goes so deep with his feelings, there's a lot to…

— Bernadette Peters

In drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different…

— Lance Reddick

No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is.

— Peter O'Toole

Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you're not going to be good.

— Paul Morrissey

My understanding is the day I start looking at myself as a star is the day I will die as an actor.

— Mahira Khan

Back in school, some of my friends asked me to participate in the school's dramatic society. I did, and it opened up…

— Joe Don Baker

Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe…

— Mignon McLaughlin

I think if I had just gone to acting school and then auditioned, no one would be like, 'Who's that girl?' Like,…

— Rachel Sennott

Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons I guess…

— Bruce Davison

I had a brilliant drama teacher while I was at Roland Park: Ann Mainolfi. But the school was mostly rich in academics.…

— Nicole Ari Parker

Never stop training, no matter what level you're at. Never, ever stop putting your talent under a microscope and asking, 'Yeah, yeah,…

— Jordan Gavaris

It was never my intention to be an actor, and I don't know if I'll ever call myself an actor because I've…

— Edge

It's my privilege to work with an actor like Vikram who gets into the skin of the character he is playing, so…

— Anushka Shetty

Actors go, 'I just want to act.' And I say to them, 'You know, stop for a second and think about what…

— Jason Alexander

I think I'm an actor. You can hire me. I can do a good job. But you also have to get lucky…

— Rutger Hauer

I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business.…

— Bryan Cranston

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.

— Jill Bennett

I admire Cate Blanchett as an actor: that's my ultimate goal. To be as good as she is!

— Indiana Evans

To this day my father cringes when he has to tell friends, 'My son's a movie actor.'

— Victor Banerjee

I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly.

— John Huston

I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting.

— Woody Harrelson

The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

— Margaret Halsey

Everybody is an actor, whether you play the main lead or one of the supporting characters.

— Deepti Naval

Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting.

— Ellen Terry

I never have particular actors planned when I'm in the process of writing.

— Susanne Bier

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

— Anonymous

No actor is totally happy with the roles they get.

— Ashish Vidyarthi

We had no idea, you're like, an amazing actor, man.

— Jonah Hill

The Majestic Theatre in San Antone is as good as it gets.

— Ron White

I was a chemical engineer in school. And, randomly, an ex-girlfriend dared me to do a play.

— Ato Essandoh

I've always been an actor, even when I was doing improv and my own version of stand up.

— Brett Gelman

I know what my talents are, and at the end of the day I'm an actor who can dance.

— Harry Shum, Jr