Actor Quotes · Page 245

When you cast, you can't cast only visually; you have to cast emotionally, too.

— Niels Arden Oplev

Snake Plissken walks in the room, any young actor is going to be a bit speechless.

— Chris Sullivan

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

— Fred Durst

Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.

— Reid Scott

As an actor, we are, in a way, a mirror of other people.

— Chris Sarandon

I personally feel that an actor should not take an important part in politics.

— Alok Nath

Doing Broadway was always a dream of mine since I was a little girl.

— Olivia d'Abo

I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.

— Ebon Moss-Bachrach

That's the wonderful thing about acting - you play a role. It's about humanity, rather than labeling.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

It don't make sense: either you a soldier from the start, Or a actor with a record deal tryin' to play the…

— Xzibit

I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor.

— David Duchovny

I've always said that theater was where I began, so everything I do now has a bit of my theater background in…

— Luke Evans

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

— Jessica Chastain

Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling.

— Simon Callow

Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.

— Eve Ensler

I was never treated differently. I never felt like I was lesser or I was discriminated against. I've only experienced that after…

— Anushka Sharma

I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is…

— Ethan Hawke

I would love to create a piece of theater that is devised by a company of actors and creators that I'd put…

— Michael Arden

So many people have told me that 'Wicked' is their first musical ever and that they're hooked for life. I'm like, 'Wow,…

— Colin Donnell

A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off,…

— Jacki Weaver

I like the cold; I don't have problem with cold, and I don't have problem with rain either, as long as people…

— Boman Irani

There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've…

— Scott Speedman

I don't approve of the John Waynes and the Gary Coopers saying "Shucks, I ain't no actor - I'm just a bridge…

— Humphrey Bogart

You see somebody like Olivia Colman and say, 'Okay, she's really great at comedy - I wonder if she can do drama?'…

— Paterson Joseph

I spent so many years trying to become an actor, trying to be a person that I wasn't.

— Peter Hedges

I've never been trained as an actor. I'm no Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Johnny Depp.

— Trace Adkins

I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater.

— Luchino Visconti

A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.

— Tony Scott

I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.

— Rachel Dratch

It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.

— Jeff Bridges

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

— Bryan Cranston

The Public Theater requires one to be very public, and writing requires one to be very private.

— George C. Wolfe

Don't worry about telling your actor what to do.

— Ewan McGregor

The only really good thing about acting in movies is that there's no heavy lifting.

— Cary Grant

My job as an actor is to live the role that I do.

— Mithila Palkar

What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my…

— Mickey Rourke

I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.

— David Ogden Stiers

If they made films in Palm Beach, actors and actresses would be much better dressed.

— Kenneth Jay Lane

I am a trained actor and an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII).

— Raza Murad

I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality.

— Christina Ricci