Actor Quotes · Page 21

I started out doing musicals.

— Zooey Deschanel

I'm just a working actor.

— Clive Owen

Being an actor can be a lonely life.

— Frank Grillo

It's 90 percent rejection, being an actor.

— Jason Robards

I am keen to prove myself as an actor.

— Himesh Reshammiya

The play is not in the words, it’s in you!

— Stella Adler

I am an actor and I like to play characters.

— Mohnish Bahl

Acting is only my profession.

— Mohanlal

I'm passionate about actors, and I'm passionate about showing actors in different lights.

— Ryan Murphy

I don't think it's a bad thing to go out there and challenge yourself as an actor.

— Matt Bomer

I am auditioning again - getting back to theatre would be amazing.

— Harry Melling

I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.

— Ben Kingsley

Music always came first. I never set out to be an actor.

— David Soul

There are certain actors you watch in a movie, and you think, 'Wow, that guy is very skilled.'

— Bradley Cooper

There are many, many, actors with whom I'd like to share a stage or a set.

— Joshua Malina

I didn't want to be classified as a northern actress.

— Lesley Sharp

I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working…

— Francesca Annis

I was having a dilemma whether I wanted to return to acting at all because I was coming from this sort of…

— Cole Sprouse

It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.

— David Mamet

I'm just an actor when the camera's on. The rest of the time I'm just Kenny, and I just do what I…

— Ken Wahl

There are a lot of actors who wish there was a next play, a next musical. As an actor, I guess that's…

— Lea Salonga

“It surprised him to see that the play which he had known at rehearsals for a disjointed lifeless thing had suddenly assumed…

— James Joyce

I love acting because it's this space where dreams can be realized, fantasy comes to life, and there are no limitations on…

— Jessica Alba

Do you see what I mean?! About the theater?! I'm back here for three hours and I'm acting like a lunatic. I'll…

— Ken Ludwig

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this…

— Michael Caine

When I decided to become an actor, I realised that every role that we play on screen requires a different kind of…

— Sanya Malhotra

Theatre, in which actors take on changing roles, has among its many functions the examination of identity. For the individual, theatre is…

— Richard Hornby

Elijah Wood confirms his standing as the foremost actor of his generation. ...Wood acts so eloquently with his sentient face and searching…

— Jay Carr

I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show,' I was just trying to adopt the…

— John Oliver

I'm a very competitive person, but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be, and if that…

— Wentworth Miller

The only thing I'm nervous about is talking to guests like human beings, because all of my interviews so far have been…

— John Oliver

Audiences seem to have a limitless appetite for vampires and for fantasy in general. Unlike many other British actors, I haven't been…

— Charles Dance

It's hard; this business of acting is hard.

— Noma Dumezweni

I long to get back into theater.

— Antonio Banderas

I don't remember ever not knowing about acting.

— Jennifer Grey

Theater was just what I was supposed to do.

— Annaleigh Ashford

Musical theatre is my first love.

— Laura Benanti

I knew I always wanted to major in theater.

— Natasha Rothwell

Theater dates very quickly.

— Fiona Shaw

I actually didn't always want to be an actor.

— Jack Kilmer