Actor Quotes · Page 231

My long-term goal is to play a drag role or a female role in a Broadway production.

— Jinkx Monsoon

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

— Larenz Tate

We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set.

— Peter Farrelly

Guy Ritchie, he thinks going to drama school is the worst thing in the world.

— Jason Statham

Being an actor is like being a monk: you have got to be dedicated.

— David Jason

I'm not sure people even think of me as an actor at all.

— James Corden

I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.

— Don Rickles

I feel like casting is the most important aspect of making movies.

— Ben Affleck

I don't think I'm an actor who takes their characters home with him. But I certainly do take the preparation home.

— Donald Sutherland

Actors are fighting at all time. The love you get is amazing. When you don't get it, it is the most excruciating…

— Parineeti Chopra

An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.

— Paul Lynde

You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

— James Garner

I'm an instinctive actor. I just see the part and play it. I'm more interested in what isn't said - the silences.

— Philip Glenister

My grooming as an actor took place after working with top directors like Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Gulzar, BR Chopra and Shakti Samantha.

— Asrani

I wanted to be a star. I wanted to become a dancing star but didn't think I would become an actor.

— Radhika Madan

I might be doing a lot more theater, which is kind of what I love, but there's simply no time for.

— Erika Slezak

I think that it's worthwhile to explore the ways in which you write the person that's writing your plays as opposed to…

— Tony Kushner

I was told, 'You are not beautiful and glamorous enough,' 'Oh no, you're too serious an actor...' 'You're not good enough an…

— Taapsee Pannu

That's not part of me that I have to do something dark to prove to people that I'm an actor. The fuel…

— Jerry Trainor

I was not treated like a serious young actress, and that was very hard. It sent me into psychotherapy, which is one…

— Rita Moreno

As a jobbing actor, you can't afford to be choosy; if you're typed, you're generally working. I still feel that way, and…

— Robert Englund

You tell yourself that you're not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think,…

— Bill Nighy

I've had some interesting roles along the way, but they tend to be cause-driven. They're always about something. There isn't time for…

— Bonnie Bedelia

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first…

— Jean Cocteau

Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think its a wonderful thing.

— Kevin Spacey

I don't think I'm predominantly thought of as being a comedic actor.

— Michael Madsen

I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?

— Sakshi Tanwar

I'm an actor, after all, and I need to be able to pay my rent.

— Wunmi Mosaku

You're constantly getting rejected in acting. You get rejected more than you get hired!

— Alexandra Chando

The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

— George Bernard Shaw

I don't think of myself as an actor. I just happen to be a guy who acted in a movie.

— Ken Wahl

You know what actors are like; they moisturize every night. They're frozen in time.

— Danny Boyle

I think like an actor when I'm acting, and I think like a director when I'm directing.

— Roger Rees

For me, a film is a film, and I just want to be part of good stories to grow as an actor.

— Vicky Kaushal

As you grow, you keep working on your craft and keep getting better as an actor.

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

I want to create an environment that actors can be really free in.

— Michael Arden

The thing I like about acting is being able to lose yourself completely in someone else.

— Ellen Page

But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.

— Dabney Coleman

To be a good actor you have to feel life and observe life.

— Lane Garrison

As an actor, you enjoy the characters that you play in a movie.

— Sana Khan