Actor Quotes · Page 216

Being an actor, I've thought about being in the male gaze.

— Betty Gilpin

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

— Ted Levine

You have to stop yourself midway through a scene and be like, 'I'm acting with Olivia Colman!'

— Josh O'Connor

I like the fact that, as an actor, one day I can be the president. I can be an astronaut.

— Rege-Jean Page

Part of my mission as an actor has been to define what an American is.

— John Cho

I am a character actor and one of my characters just happens to be a loud, vulgar woman.

— Divine

As actors, the goal is to have resonance of some kind.

— Nicholas Galitzine

Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.

— Carrie Fisher

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

— Stella Adler

'If I Loved You.' All the way. Totally intimidated by it. From the outside, it has this aura of being one of…

— Jessie Mueller

I don't want to be like the actor who rehearses everything in the bathroom, then comes to the set and carries on…

— Ben Kingsley

I am not only lucky to be an actor, but I am lucky to be one of the most privileged actors in…

— Stellan Skarsgard

I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck…

— James Gandolfini

“I find that fame tends to turn one from an actor and a human being into a piece of merchandise, a public…

— Sean Connery

As an actor, you get into makeup, you get into hair, you come out of your trailer, and you hit your mark.…

— Rocky Carroll

With 'Avatar,' you're beginning to see the need for less and less actors and less of an appreciation for live acting.

— Martin Landau

JR was a 1-dimensional, evil character. JR was multi-dimensional, and Larry Hagman is probably one of the greatest actors that we have.…

— Charlene Tilton

I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go to an audition, my…

— Shailene Woodley

The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working in different mediums. A lot…

— Deborah Mailman

When I was younger, I always liked acting. You know, like, acting locally, or community theater at school. But it's not an…

— Tavi Gevinson

In terms of the stars, the only ones I cast were Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins. I was in Los Angeles working…

— Dustin Hoffman

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it.…

— Nicole Kidman

Sometimes you're not supposed to enjoy it [acting]. You're supposed to cooperate with misery and proceed anyway. But what I do enjoy…

— Robert Downey, Jr

Every audition is different, but I get incredibly nervous and insecure and worked up for however long I have to prep -…

— Nina Arianda

Great acting is all about being in the moment, being in the present tense.

— Tom Hooper

Going to drama school was the start of my journey of discovery and getting to know myself.

— Anita Dobson

“Heartbreak made me an actor and a bloody good one.”

— Sakshi Narula

In 1986 I went to study at the Delhi University and that's where I took up theatre seriously.

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.

— Billy West

My father is an actor as well, so I used to look to him.

— Brian Gleeson

I am very greedy as an actor. I want to explore as much as possible.

— Mithila Palkar

Acting is like sex. You should just do it and not talk about it.

— Joanne Woodward

There are many actors who, whatever they do, they pretty much play themselves.

— Rena Sofer

An actor doesn't have a regular job. He is dependent upon the roles which are given him.

— Van Heflin

I've worked with actors who were very helpful and a lot better than I was.

— Diane Kruger

As far as working with actors, I feel very comfortable working in that aspect of directing.

— Jim Rash

As an actor, you're always reading scripts looking for something good.

— Kevin Nealon

The toughest challenge for any actor is to get accepted and loved by the audience.

— Varun Sharma

To work with kids is difficult. To work with non-actors is difficult.

— Michel Hazanavicius

My becoming an actor was a massive shift for me, and a terrifying one.

— Zoe Bell