Actor Quotes · Page 196

Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.

— Dirk Benedict

Now I've come to a place where I believe that anger doesn't really make me a better actor.

— Mahira Khan

I think every actor should direct at least once and vice versa.

— Hart Bochner

There's something so wonderful about being an actor in New York.

— Karen Allen

Everybody has auditioned and failed. You learn from that. It's how you learn your craft.

— Louis Walsh

I fell so hard for the theater. I knew it was a place where you can sort out your life.

— Joel Grey

Without great writing, you've got a bunch of actors bumping into each other.

— Bob Newhart

I think it's exciting to see actors do new things.

— Toni Collette

I've never felt terribly attached to acting because I always feel like the world is really big and really interesting, and there…

— Carrie Coon

We all don't feel like a million bucks, even if you're an actor. You just don't; not all of us feel like…

— Jimmi Simpson

We start off wearing frilly shirts and britches and being good guys and the heroes. And then as time goes on, every…

— James Purefoy

Actors do movies because you want to make a connection; you want an audience to recognise themselves in what it is that…

— Holly Hunter

Acting is a very artistic profession and there are thousands of people out there who think they are actors but there are…

— Wolfgang Puck

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last…

— Elizabeth Olsen

My favorite is Deepika Padukone. She is amazing and is a brilliant actor. She is fantastic and has come a long way

— Malaika Arora Khan

Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.

— Billy Eichner

The great thing about acting is that, until you're dead, you can do it. There are aspects to it that as time…

— Gil Bellows

I guess there are very few actors that I've worked with that I would like to work with again. You never think…

— Charlize Theron

Both my parents were actors and they struggled, so I was raised with that. Being raised in this industry from a young…

— Camila Morrone

I always remember is that no matter how good I might be in a movie, I'll never be any better. It's frozen.…

— Kevin Spacey

“We’re only ever playing fifty percent of a character. The rest is us, and we’re afraid to show people who we really…

— M.L. Rio

As a performer, you can't just sit around waiting for the phone to ring. You have to write and develop projects for…

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

Being an actor, and a villain for various movies, I've played all parts of Ravana's persona already. But as familiar as all…

— Mukesh Rishi

The love and respect that my parents have gained through their body of work is unmatchable. My goal is not to surpass…

— Shriya Pilgaonkar

Every actor has to find space where they are free, in order to do good work.

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.

— Natalie Dormer

Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket.

— Uwe Boll

I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.

— Nicolas Cage

Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.

— Liev Schreiber

I think people are starting to think of me less as an actor and more as a writer.

— Amber Benson

I think most actors will say they always feel like they'll never work again.

— Jon Tenney

I did start out as an actor. I went to Northwestern; I did musicals. I did plays.

— Billy Eichner

I was a serious method actor until I visited this site.

— Robin Williams

I love the long-form rehearsal process with theater, brick by brick, to build another life.

— Vik Sahay

One always wants to express themselves when they're an actor.

— Jason Watkins

I think any actor worth their salt wants to show as much versatility as they possibly can.

— Daniel Radcliffe

I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.

— Nancy Grace

I did a musical when I was 17, an amateur show, and I loved it.

— Taron Egerton

There is a certain creative liberty an actor or a director is allowed to take.

— Shefali Shah

I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.

— Emmanuelle Beart