Actor Quotes · Page 187

I was never destined to be a movie star, and I'm happy not being one.

— Rudy Boesch

An actor's job is to maintain the balance between the projects they decide to take up.

— Gurmeet Choudhary

The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances.

— George Cukor

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

— Joe Morton

I've become one of those actors who find it difficult to say 'no' when things are offered.

— Richard Armitage

The reality is that most of us actors have to take work that we would rather not at some time.

— Terry O'Quinn

My journey of working in Telugu filmdom has helped me grow as an actor and person.

— Raashi Khanna

I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Very often, actors have to face being rejected time and again, and we must remember that the red carpet lasts just a…

— Rhys Ifans

I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid,…

— Anthony Michael Hall

I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fake it, I make…

— Lloyd Bridges

Jayne Houdyshell and I - when I was 17 years old - did summer stock together at the Timber Lake Playhouse in…

— Joe Mantello

When I was a little younger, I realized acting is a wonderful craft, and it's wonderful when you are working.

— Kevin Schmidt

An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of…

— Fanny Kemble

You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be…

— Cillian Murphy

My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one…

— Julianna Baggott

My mother was really against it when I said I wanted to make films. She said that I should be a civil…

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw…

— Giovanni Ribisi

I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years and really thought I was going to be…

— Scott Adsit

Drama school was the first place I learned that looks can affect your career. It was very horrible at the time. I…

— Joseph Gatt

It is so rare as an actor to be allowed the chance to revisit a role and to go back to a…

— Tom Hiddleston

A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of…

— David Nicholls

I have the vanity to think that every play I have written is different from the previous ones. Yet, even though they…

— Eugene Ionesco

Acting is acting, and who you are will still remain to be who you are. You know, that part won't change it.…

— Gabourey Sidibe

I think that's part of the fun of being an actor - you get to not be normal all of the time.

— Lucas Neff

“In the first place, I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.”

— J D Salinger

In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.

— Michael Caine

When I moved to Bengaluru to study law, I was looking forward to joining a theatre troupe.

— Shraddha Srinath

I love working with Alec Baldwin. He's one of the five greatest actors ever to live.

— Tracy Morgan

The worst feeling in the world is giving a bad audition.

— Aya Cash

Acting is a spiritual quest to touch human beings.

— Larry Moss

It's not a matter of being choosy as an actor but a matter of liking the right script.

— Aditya Roy Kapur

I needed someone really intense, but also somebody with a lot of theatrical credibility.

— Denis Leary

I think most actors like to do things that are right outside of their comfort zone.

— Stephanie Beatriz

Theatre should remain accessible even to those of us who have health condition.

— Liz Carr

I just wanted to be one of those actors who works at the National Theatre the whole time.

— Robert Emms

I think the periods of being unsuccessful have made me a better actor.

— Peter Capaldi

I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.

— Elizabeth Taylor

In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.

— Marcia Gay Harden

It's great to be an actor, and it's great to embody something more than who you are.

— Janet Varney