Actor Quotes · Page 207

When I first started acting, everyone in my family did not want me to act.

— Billie Lourd

I enjoy working with actors so much and having the chance to be surprised by them.

— Diego Luna

But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

I'm not a natural-born actor. So it's been a very slow learning curve for me.

— John Cho

I'm an actor who directs. Probably always will be.

— Clark Johnson

As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure.

— Taylor Sheridan

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

— Benjamin Franklin

Like my father, like most actors, I was a pretty ambitious guy.

— Michael Douglas

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

— William Ralph Inge

If you want to deliver as an actor, you need to know the language. If you don't know what you are mouthing,…

— Raashi Khanna

I had done the child acting thing, which is pretty much learning your lines, standing there looking natural, and having fun.

— Vinessa Shaw

I really act for myself. I really love it. I don't think there's a way that you could handle these schedules, all…

— Jennifer Lawrence

Being an actor, you go through this thing where you want to be the best, and I think, in life in general,…

— Justin Hartley

To my mind, the actor has this great responsability of playing another human being… it’s like taking on another person’s life and…

— Edward G. Robinson

There are some subjects in school that I love, but it can still feel like a chore. Acting never feels like a…

— Sierra McCormick

I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt…

— Mara Wilson

I have been parts of some films in the South where I didn't expect certain shots to be shot in a certain…

— Ileana D'Cruz

I've never been passionate about acting, and I find more and more that I work to live the life I want to…

— Jeremy Irons

I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my…

— Israel Horovitz

I think all actors, when they're not working, say, 'If I can get to this point where I'm working on a consistent…

— Mike Colter

It used to be embarrassing. In the beginning, because you listen to yourself so much, you think, I must look like an…

— Rachael MacFarlane

In acting, every day is different ,and I guess it appeals to my storytelling imagination. But I've been very fortunate to get…

— Emilia Fox

I think acting, oftentimes it's not about lines, it's about spaces in between lines and expressions on people's faces and their relationships.…

— Peter Capaldi

Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and…

— Patton Oswalt

When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.

— Edward Albee

“[ On his Emmy win ] I thought ‘ah, very, very nice’ and then I went to sleep.”

— Martin Freeman

As actors, you become an expert at starting over.

— Lupita Nyong'o

I am still a villager who fell in love with acting.

— Pankaj Tripathi

Good films not only help me grow as an actor but as a human being.

— Vicky Kaushal

The image of an actor plays a huge role in deciding if he or she can experiment with roles.

— Radhika Apte

Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.

— Vera Farmiga

I think theater is a great training ground; I think it's a great opportunity to play.

— Tom Irwin

Theatre has taught me a lot, and I am sure there will be a lot to learn.

— Nana Patekar

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

— Demi Lovato

There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.

— Martha Plimpton

I can't say what Danny Kaye is like in private life. There are too many of them.

— Danny Kaye

As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he's a genius.

— Simon Cowell

There's no royalty in America, so people deify actors.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I don't really create things externally; I'm not that kind of actor.

— Benedict Samuel

I learned a lot about acting from the people I worked with.

— Vincent Kartheiser