Actor Quotes · Page 236

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

— Quentin Tarantino

There are so many good actors who just keep waiting for good opportunities.

— Vikram Bhatt

I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead

— Tom Berenger

Contrary to popular belief, actors are extremely supportive of each other.

— Prunella Scales

When you're a drama student, I think the most you hope for is to make a living out of acting.

— Tom Ellis

I played Shylock in my school's staging of 'Merchant of Venice.'

— Ayushmann Khurrana

I am a very blessed actor because I have always got the chance to portray various characters.

— Manini Mishra

Being back on stage in New York, off-Broadway - I mean, that's an actor's dream.

— Joe Morton

I'm not a classically trained actor, but I've been given a lot of opportunities along the way to kind of figure it…

— Bridget Everett

The interesting roles have only come since I got into my 30s. But I didn't know that was going to happen.

— Richard Armitage

I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a…

— Demetri Martin

Where I come from, you don't just say, 'Oh, I'm going to become an actor.' Talk like that and they think you're…

— Ellen Pompeo

As an actor in the theater you're taught that you never play a bad guy. You have to love who you are.…

— Denzel Washington

So to answer your question, Im not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody…

— Hugh Dancy

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

— Billy Crystal

“Life's a struggle against acting, which claims more lives than all the other drugs of the world put together.”

— Antonia Quirke

I think the therapeutic part of acting is allowing myself to step into another human being's shoes. It allows me the ability…

— Sterling K. Brown

Create a life outside of acting work that fulfills you and feeds your soul. Nurture your relationships - family and friends. Stay…

— Melanie Nicholls-King

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, 'Sexiest Man Alive,' I'm honestly going, 'Thank…

— Matthew McConaughey

I'm a big Harrison Ford fan. I kind of pattern a lot of things after him, the way that he's an every…

— Michael Jai White

I got into acting in high school mainly because I wasn't doing anything else and started to hit a few bumps in…

— Matt Letscher

When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing…

— Dan Byrd

I sort of have open invitations from a lot of people to do TV. But it's very hard for me to do…

— Norm MacDonald

I was 16 and standing on Tottenham Court Road when this woman came over and asked me if I was an actress.…

— Georgina Campbell

I am an extremely selfless but, at the same time, supremely confident actor.

— R. Madhavan

It's important that the director and actor have good chemistry, and not just the actors.

— Alia Bhatt

The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.

— Eddie Marsan

Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.

— John Patrick Shanley

I always believed that I could be one of the greatest actors of my generation.

— Barry Keoghan

As actors we're always trying to use our creative imagination.

— Keith David

Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be.

— Noel Coward

And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.

— Ted Shackelford

I wanted to work strictly as a freelance actor, and that's the way it turned out.

— Pernell Roberts

The dilemma of refusing a role is faced by every actor at certain points in his/her life.

— Pratik Gandhi

There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.

— Jet Li

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

— Bruce Willis

In theater, you just are who you are, and everyone loves you for it.

— Lachlan Watson

I love creating things and I feel like that's what acting is. It's just being creative.

— Lainey Wilson

If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.

— John Lithgow

A lot of actors go crazy if they're not working, but I guess I'm a little lazy.

— Fred MacMurray