Actor Quotes · Page 226

That's the great thing about being an actor, you know, you can just jump to different jobs.

— Matt Dillon

If you can get tickets, a show on Broadway is worth the effort and expense.

— David Baddiel

I always wanted to be an actor. My father inspired me since I was three years old.

— Bobby Deol

At the end of the day, an actor is only a cog in the wheel.

— Randeep Hooda

I never wanted to be an actress who complained about the lack of roles for women.

— Kelly Rowan

If an actor doesn't believe in the film, the actor doesn't promote the film.

— Sajid Khan

My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.

— Laura Benanti

Actors are observers of human life, of human behavior.

— Kelsey Grammer

In my junior year, I saw 'Zorba the Greek' with Anthony Quinn, and I was transported by it. I wanted to live,…

— Jonathan Banks

My ego thinks I would like to be considered for more heavyweight roles, but the price you pay for that is they…

— Steffan Rhodri

People think if you are an actor or a social figure, you have more freedom in life. But that's not the case.

— Shamna Kasim

I'm an extraordinarily anxious person. I'm a typical actor: narcissistic and paranoid and all them things.

— Joe Gilgun

Robert DeNiro, who may be the greatest living actor, usually acts in a way which is very stone-faced, like Steve McQueen.

— Michel Hazanavicius

The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It…

— John Steinbeck

I love film, but it's funny going to drama school for three years, where you spend most of your time training for…

— Tuppence Middleton

I love working, I'd be dead if I hadn't found myself as an actor I didn't have to be successful.

— Dustin Hoffman

A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

Society is about masks and hiding and pretending to be something that you're not and not opening up, and in acting, you…

— Ben Wheatley

My interest in acting came from seeing Broadway shows on summer trips to New York as a child. It was the original…

— John Lloyd Young

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over,…

— John Hawkes

Owen Wilson is an actor, but think of him as a sort of secret agent. He has an offbeat, indie-movie sensibility. Every…

— Jeff Giles

How much do you have to pay someone to be in a George Clooney/Alexander Payne film? Nothing! Because everyone in the world…

— Matthew Lillard

In the end of the day, you are human. Film is a job which is not an individual job; you have tons…

— Preity Zinta

Bad acting, like bad writing, has a remarkable uniformity, whether seen on the French, German, or English stages; it all seems modeled…

— George Henry Lewes

I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.

— A. J. McLean

I don't see myself as an actor. I see myself as a storyteller.

— Costa Ronin

I was gonna be an actor and no one was stopping me.

— Phoebe Dynevor

There's no one way of doing anything, especially acting.

— Fala Chen

Make acting seem real and as if it weren't acting. Just make it real.

— Joseph Mazzello

I never got a lead role and I make no bones about it.

— Vishwajeet Pradhan

I think it's my job as a young actor to watch adult actors and take tips on the way they work.

— Tye Sheridan

The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances.

— George Cukor

An actor's job is to maintain the balance between the projects they decide to take up.

— Gurmeet Choudhary

In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.

— William Mapother

I was never destined to be a movie star, and I'm happy not being one.

— Rudy Boesch

Acting is my career. I am pursuing it with passion.

— Priyamani

I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.

— Molly Parker

I trained in Toronto with a private acting teacher, who was wonderful, for years growing up.

— Megan Park

I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor.

— Sylvester Stallone

Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character.

— David Twohy