Actor Quotes · Page 228

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

— Clint Eastwood

I recognize how lucky I am as an actor. I've been working as an actor since I was 9 years old.

— Sara Rue

I'll do more than the average actor, but I'm smart enough to know why stunt guys exist.

— Bruce Campbell

The key to acting is less acting and just reacting.

— Ken Marino

Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Acting, for me, was therapeutic. It was a way of expressing yourself.

— Ellie Bamber

Don't call me a hero. I would prefer myself being called as an actor.

— Vijay Antony

Although he appeared in some awful movies, Elvis could also be pretty damn good as an actor.

— Ian Gillan

But there are times, as an actor, where you are like, 'Although I am really sad that I did not get this,…

— Wunmi Mosaku

When we had Brian Cox in 'Super Troopers,' we learned that when you put a great actor in the center of our…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

Liberated souls are a rare commodity in this world. They are no better; it's just you, a little later, in the next…

— Frederick Lenz

There is no such thing as playing someone else's character. Every actor takes a character and makes it his/her own while enacting…

— Abhimanyu Singh

People on the stage are desperate to do the screens, and people on the screens are desperate to do theater.

— Sian Clifford

I was lucky enough to get a very good agent at the age of 15, and got my first film when I…

— Douglas Booth

That's the challenge as an actor. You put yourself in uncomfortable positions because that's your job. Otherwise, just stay home and watch…

— Stacy Martin

I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s…

— Loudon Wainwright III

Auditioning is a skill. There are actors who are not very talented but know how to audition and know how to be…

— Noah Galvin

I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. I feel the actors are being put through a…

— Wallace Shawn

I'm the journeyman actor that you saw in one scene here, two scenes there. I've been eking out a living doing theater…

— Viola Davis

The funniest thing is I never understood why actors were so shady about who they're dating. Then I realized the things you…

— Emily Meade

I like working fast, but I got to the age where the real difference between television and the movies is, I'm not…

— William Devane

I still audition a lot - it depends on the medium. For film, I audition just like everyone else, because it's a…

— Neil Patrick Harris

When musicals don't work, they really don't work. But when they work, and someone is singing because they can't speak anymore, or…

— Rob Marshall

Everyone has to do the same work as actors - I teach acting. But there are those people who come on, and…

— Jeffrey Tambor

After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater.

— Timothy Simons

I'm doing more acting, but I'm also focusing on strongman.

— Hafthor Bjornsson

Actors always want to play the villain role at least once in their life.

— Lee Byung-hun

I really did start a whole way of thinking about musical theater.

— Joel Grey

I don't know if I have really made it as an actor. I don't even look at it that way.

— Naveen Andrews

I am able to do social service only because of the name I gained from acting.

— Suresh Gopi

When I started cracking auditions I got confident and that's when I felt I can act.

— Rohit Saraf

As a sensible actor, I can easily judge which scene looks vulgar and which will look aesthetic.

— Gautam Rode

When I left drama school I was prepped to be in shows and tour around England by van.

— Josh O'Connor

In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.

— Marcia Gay Harden

I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.

— Elizabeth Taylor

I think the periods of being unsuccessful have made me a better actor.

— Peter Capaldi

I just wanted to be one of those actors who works at the National Theatre the whole time.

— Robert Emms

Being an actor is actually pretty easy if you can memorize lines.

— Jon Hamm

I'd done stage musicals for quite a few years, starting with 'Grease' in Auckland.

— Russell Crowe

It's great to be an actor, and it's great to embody something more than who you are.

— Janet Varney