Actor Quotes · Page 183

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

— August Wilson

I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.

— Idris Elba

A lot of my mates are actors and it's lovely to be able to work with friends.

— Luke Treadaway

Few people remember that I played a nun in the Broadway musical, 'the Sound of Music.'

— Joey Heatherton

I sort of got fooled into acting, actually. I never intended to do it.

— Dakin Matthews

Acting is a job and it pays the rent. I don't do it for fun.

— Sheila Hancock

All I listened to until age 18 growing up was musical theater. I liked the escapism of it.

— Rachel Bloom

Part of an actor's job is to draw up a back story.

— Bryan Cranston

Many actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors.

— Jonathan Rauch

We as actors doubt up until the last minute that we can be this person. So everything matters, the more work you…

— Donnie Wahlberg

Bart The Bear was fantastic to work with. Absolutely brilliant and so, so good. The things that that bear could do to…

— Gwendoline Christie

I am an actor. Let me act, let me audition. Let me show what I can do. You need to surprise yourself…

— Radhika Madan

Every time I'd do a play, my grades would get better because I was doing something that fed my soul. It took…

— Sterling K. Brown

My first real acting job was 'Skins' at eighteen years old, and I just kind of grew into myself in those two…

— Luke Pasqualino

I don't think an actor's job is to be recognized. I think an actor's job is to facilitate the writing in a…

— Jeffrey Donovan

In the theater you rehearse for a minimum of five to six weeks. And then you get to play it. Which means…

— Christopher Walken

Today, the paparazzi are not just photographers: everyone has a cell phone with a camera. If they see an actor, they click…

— Ranbir Kapoor

There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status…

— Sterling Hayden

As an actor, you have to face the public all the time. It is a job that people fantasies, but it also…

— Gong Yoo

I directed my first music video for Sara Bareilles. I like writing and directing. I co-wrote '21 Jump Street' and I'm in…

— Jonah Hill

Because I had other means of expressions, I was lucky that I didn't go under and start becoming all convoluted in my…

— Deepti Naval

I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with…

— Laura Dern

But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have…

— Christopher Meloni

By 14, I had decided on three modest goals and repeated them often to everyone. I wanted to be a world-class filmmaker,…

— Sean Astin

For me as an actor, it's really fun to play someone who's not human.

— Mallory Jansen

As an actor I always want to try new and challenging roles.

— Amrapali Gupta

Messin with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley. Ollie Chandler in Deception

— Randy Alcorn

Harry Hadden-Paton is just a lovely actor and an incredible person.

— Lauren Ambrose

It's a very, very rare moment when another actor hurts you. I mean, that's not normal.

— Katee Sackhoff

As an artiste, you get a high when you are given roles that are challenging.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

Theatre is home - I grew up doing it - and that is never going to change.

— Jamie Parker

As an actor, I don't want to do something which I have already done before.

— Yami Gautam

I truly love the rehearsal process, those eight hours a day! I really love actors.

— Pearl Cleage

I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.

— Betty White

I was at an acting academy for seven years prior to the trial.

— Kato Kaelin

Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

— Sanford Meisner

My acting wasn't the best. But damn, my ass looked tight.

— Anne Hathaway

I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work.

— Kent McCord

For anyone with half a brain they can see that this play is about the human condition.

— Estelle Parsons

I don't concentrate about stardom as I always wanted to be an actor and remain to be the same.

— Sanya Malhotra