Actor Quotes · Page 234

As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.

— Tom Hanks

When I was in high school, the drama teacher picked me to play Iago in 'Othello.'

— Jeff Perry

Broadway's a little different from Houston, but it's not a big difference.

— Sadie Sink

I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.

— Gary Ross

I wanted to be an artist; it was be an artist or be an actor.

— Josh O'Connor

You know, people really don't understand what actors do.

— Sally Field

I love acting. I can't believe how fun it is and how in-the-zone I am when I'm doing it.

— Laurie Simmons

Actors are never resting. Even if you're not working, you're looking for the next job.

— Tara Fitzgerald

I've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own…

— Chris Lilley

It's exciting to share an art form that I would never have imagined sharing with the deaf community. Doing musicals, it's not…

— Michael Arden

As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain,…

— George Bernard Shaw

I'm known as a dramatic actor. But because I don't do a lot of comedy, I love watching it because I can…

— Riley Smith

My father wanted to be an actor, dreamed about being an actor, but he gave it up because my mom and his…

— David Copperfield

I'm never going to be the lead actor guy. I'm real quiet and real happy and real fortunate to keep working. It's…

— Michael Ironside

Very rarely in the life of an actor and a performer do you do something you truly believe in, do you do…

— John Kani

'Siya Ke Ram' being my very first fiction TV show, I've always wanted to do a role that challenges me as an…

— Kashmira Shah

Sometime really good writing does you a disservice as an actor. Because you can get lazy. It's doing a lot of the…

— Meryl Streep

It was a dream come true working with Johnny Depp. He's always been my acting idol. Working with him and watching him…

— Mason Cook

When you tell people you're a playwright, their eyes sort of glaze over. But when you say you write the 'Fantastic Four'…

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Being a playwright of any race is difficult, and Lord knows it gets more difficult the further you get from the middle…

— Suzan-Lori Parks

I decided to have a regular childhood and not pursue [acting] until I left school, although I wrote plays, directed plays, and…

— Karl Urban

I don't know if I ever realized, initially, that I didn't tic when I was so focused on my acting. I think…

— Dash Mihok

There are definitely things about acting that have helped me growing up and finding myself, but there are also things that make…

— Rowan Blanchard

The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.

— Michael Caine

I love being an actor, especially in movies, because you get to be someone else.

— Mason Cook

I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.

— Abby Elliott

In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback.

— Anonymous

I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily

— William Hurt

As an actor, I still dont really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

— Sam Riley

All the actors go through ups and downs in their careers and in their lives.

— Ashish Vidyarthi

Normal Heart' was my most transcendent moment as an actor.

— Ellen Barkin

In theatre, the uglier you are, the better actor you are.

— Himani Shivpuri

I don't think I am motivated enough to act just for the sake of acting.

— Jubin Nautiyal

I return to the stage first and foremost because I'm an actor, and I love it.

— Laurence Fishburne

The people I enjoy most are the ones who don't stick to script.

— Emily Maitlis

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be an actor.

— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

I'm not the smartest dude in the world. (After all... I picked a career in acting.)

— Stephen Amell

I haven't even watched that many movies; I'm, like, a weird actor.

— Jane Levy

There is no question that sobriety has made me a better actor, made me a better person.

— Edie Falco