Actor Quotes · Page 201

Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.

— Don Rickles

On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

— Ian Mckellen

My advice is to make acting your second career choice

— Amber Tamblyn

I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career.

— Billy Bob Thornton

Actors usually tend to gravitate towards the evil things that stretch them.

— Jacob Batalon

Every actor dreams of getting a big break, a big opportunity.

— Liam McIntyre

I don't think I ever saw acting as an actual career until late.

— Luke Hemsworth

An actor is like an instrument, tune them, play them the right way.

— Ricky Schroder

I can't pretend at how much I object to all of the plays that keep being brought back over and over again,…

— F. Murray Abraham

As actors, when we keep working every day, after a point of time, we just know all our emotional cards and how…

— Aditya Roy Kapur

The only problem with Mitch [Pileggi, the actor who plays Skinner] is that his bald head means there's nothing to hold onto…

— David Duchovny

Christian Bale has a kind of genetically engineered handsomeness that's perfect for [John Preston]. He's also a better actor than he ever…

— Richard Roeper

For me, theatre and cinema are both pillars of an actor's life; I'd feel very half-baked if I was only doing one…

— Neeraj Kabi

I never say, 'I only want to do things like this,' I am not that sort of actor. I don't have that…

— William Fichtner

... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.

— Julia Marlowe

I feel that a lot of roles in television can really typecast someone as one type of actor or playing one type…

— Alexander Gould

Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If…

— Peter Farrelly

I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they…

— Adam Baldwin

I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you.…

— Julianne Moore

I went from an unemployed actor's life to doing stand-up comedy, and that was fortuitous. It's not the usual way the crow…

— Catherine Tate

“You may thank God you didn’t want to be an actor, Tom, because you would have been a very bad one. You…

— John Steinbeck

My idea of an actor is to be different persons with different roles. Every time a script interests me, I look for…

— Vidya Balan

If there is such a thing as 'a Cukor style,' I guess it arises out of two principal factors: my own personalized…

— George Cukor

I am artistic so I reserve the right to change my mind at any point. I just like to do different things.…

— LL Cool J

Acting isn't a side thing - you have to live and breathe it.

— Bella Thorne

What you always try to do, as an actor, is find the thing that's universal in the person.

— Finn Wittrock

“You have to be an Actor to face life not the camera.”

— Tapan Ghosh

My weakness as an actor is that I think too much.

— Seth Numrich

For less powerful actors to reject work is just a waste of time and money - pointless.

— Christina Pickles

Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can

— Cillian Murphy

It took me seven years to even comfortably say that I'm an actor.

— Kubra Sait

As an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

It’s not the job of an actor to judge your character.

— Daniel Craig

An actor's job is to play any kind of character, no matter how sub-human.

— Satish Kaushik

“Glorious theater. It creates family for all kinds of orphans.”

— Rebecca Wells

Acting makes you look at life and try to understand it in a beautiful way.

— Clemence Poesy

Most actors and actresses are performative as people.

— Zoe Lister-Jones

Finding a good kid actor is like finding a needle in a massive haystack.

— Lee Unkrich

I like it when actors depart from the script to find their characters.

— Fatih Ak?n

Ill never be as good an actor as I want to be…but I'll be good.

— Steve McQueen