Actor Quotes · Page 174

As an actor, you never know where the works going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.

— Lesley Nicol

I'm not really trying to be too much of an actor or anything.

— Jody Hill

I started acting before that when I was about 13 or 14.

— Stephen Dorff

I did not want to stay as Bidaai's Sadhna my entire life. I wanted to be fit and be Sara Khan.

— Sara Khan

Dirk Bogarde was very handsome, very hot, and a brilliant actor.

— Cole Escola

I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.

— Gabriel Byrne

As a jobbing actor or musician, you have to take any work you can get.

— Johnny Flynn

I sort of make believe. That's why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything.

— Elle Fanning

Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that,…

— Lance Bass

Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut,…

— Albert Brooks

Ma did a play called 'Entertaining Strangers' when I was about 14, which totally changed my life, I loved it so much.

— Finty Williams

I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays, and never got one job until I was in 'Four Weddings'.

— Anna Chancellor

If an L.A. actor is a star or a good face, and they want to get cred by doing a serious Shakespeare…

— Dakin Matthews

I'm always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it…

— Jaime Ray Newman

My career aspirations as an actor have always been driven foremost by the creative desire to be versatile.

— Jimmy Smits

Most actors in my position, at 47, you want your annuity show. You want your Marg Helgenberger role on 'CSI.' But that's…

— Julie Warner

At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I…

— Hugh Jackman

The growing pains of being an actor, that was a little frustrating at times because you feel like you have great capacity…

— Matt Dillon

I know there are actors we all want to beat up a little. I think it's important to do whatever it takes,…

— Ryan Reynolds

I always thought on my own that what is a huge part of being an actor, or what made me a better…

— Dominik Garcia-Lorido

The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or…

— Janusz Korczak

Sometime in my second year at Brown [University], I took an acting class. And the lightbulb went off for me. I fell…

— Tracee Ellis Ross

When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions -- that you have something to say, that you know how…

— Edward Albee

I believe this: If an actor wants a role or wants to work with somebody, then you do everything within reason to…

— Kevin Spacey

Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication.

— Juliette Lewis

As an actor, I am careless with the way I look on screen.

— Anushka Sharma

I thought I was an actor playing a wizard. But really, I was a wizard playing an actor.

— Daniel Radcliffe

I think as an actor, you have to make yourself vulnerable to emotions.

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

— Michael Ironside

I took acting classes in my senior year in college and I loved it.

— Adepero Oduye

I am inclined to acting. I like to act and I like being an actor.

— Akshaye Khanna

I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.

— Maddie Hasson

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare

— Ray Liotta

I toured with Andrea Bocelli, went to London to do a show for a year in the West End.

— Heather Headley

Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.

— Lauren Graham

I'm not an actor. Lord knows, I'd be acting if I were an actor. What you see is what you get.

— Guy Fieri

Usually, you don't really end up lifelong buddies with your co-stars.

— Lea Thompson

John Malkovich is such an interesting person and such a fun actor to work with.

— Liam Hemsworth

I couldn't continue to live in a bubble and hope to be an empathic actor. It doesn't work.

— Cole Sprouse

I mean, to feel in good hands as an actor... it's the best feeling.

— Paul Dano