Actor Quotes · Page 172

I'm a singer, song-writer, actor, actress, athlete. Girl, I'm everything.

— Bretman Rock

A responsive audience is the best encouragement an actor can have.

— Al Jolson

If you don't get famous when you're a kid, it makes the transition to adult actor easier.

— Tom Guiry

I'm not naive to the fact that I'm an out gay actor.

— Ellen Page

I had a blind belief in myself and became a music director and an actor.

— Vijay Antony

Doing 'Hedwig' was so hard that I kind of burned out on acting.

— John Cameron Mitchell

“Actors had a habit of filling all the space around them.”

— Terry Pratchett

I never wanted to be an actor but ended up being one.

— Fahadh Faasil

I think I started out just loving the attention. But that's changed into a real love and passion for my profession. Acting…

— Jane Badler

Mostly in movies an actor has to come to a mark, an X, and deliver his line - but that's so artificial,…

— Bruce Robinson

I'm like this mercenary actor going from show to show - people love to hire me, but then don't want me around…

— Sebastian Roche

With some actors, you can tell, just from their different backgrounds and their different approaches to working, they would have just a…

— Taika Waititi

Good theatre draws the energies out of the place where it is and gives it back as joie de vivre.

— Joan Littlewood

Great actors come with depth about how their character sees the world, and they completely defend it. They could defend it in…

— M. Night Shyamalan

Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven…

— Kevin Spacey

If you want to have more options as an actor, you just need to watch your weight, and I've ignored that fact…

— Cherry Jones

Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script;…

— Viola Davis

I think the funny thing about acting for me - and I hold it in a very holy, spiritual way - not…

— Melissa Leo

Those people that have hardened to rejection or hardened to life in general, it's pretty hard to feel them. You know, to…

— Emma Stone

You know, you're just sitting with him [Chevy Chase], then you're doing a scene with him and acting, and all of a…

— Danny Pudi

There's kind of no rhyme or reason to what is appealing to any given actor. It just is, or it isn't. It's…

— Katherine Waterston

A lot of the characters I play have problems, they are marginalised, they have serious psychological problems, problems with relationships, with childhood.…

— Robert Carlyle

Until I was about 16 years old, my dream was to be a musician. I played in rock bands and jazz bands.…

— Simon Helberg

I've grown up seeing the pros and cons but I love it and I've always wanted to act. Throughout all the rejections…

— Lily Collins

I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.

— Mel Brooks

Well, you know, I played Mufasa in the workshop of The Lion King.

— Keith David

Living in L.A., I was embarrassed to say that I wanted to be an actor.

— Elizabeth Olsen

The great thing about theater is the doing it again and again and again.

— Tim Matheson

Acting is my passion. I can't see myself doing anything else.

— Samara Weaving

I always did workshops. I would be at theater camp, doing shows, or after-school programs.

— Ansel Elgort

No actor can give his best performance without the help of the director.

— Naseeruddin Shah

We know there are a lot of bad actors out there, even in education.

— Miguel Cardona

If any child of mine becomes an actor I will turn in my grave.

— Clark Gable

I've been a musician longer than I've been an actor.

— Anonymous

I came from the theatre. I would prefer to spend more time there.

— Nana Patekar

In terms of actors and actresses, I think Joaquin Phoenix is probably my favorite film actor.

— Charlie Plummer

I really wanted to do 'Darna.' I invested so much time, so much effort.

— Liza Soberano

A conservative frame of mind is very limiting for an actor, and a human being, too.

— Vanessa Redgrave

In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.

— Sean Penn

My sensitivity level is high, but I think that's one of my assets as an actor.

— John Turturro