Actor Quotes · Page 268

I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I…

— Mara Wilson

An actor's got a serious duty to perform. God's given him the gift to interpret his creatures. He has to do that…

— Saeed Jaffrey

I was never ambitious to be a good actor. I just love doing it and I seem to be quite suited for…

— Katherine Helmond

I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's…

— Jackie Chan

Any actor would love to just pick up a script and be like, 'I can connect to this person, and I can…

— Percelle Ascott

I made little Super 8 extravaganzas when I was a kid, the first being my own version of 'Romeo and Juliet,' and…

— Todd Haynes

I put it forth as a challenge to the industry to continue thinking of actors, regardless of sexuality, with open eyes and…

— Dan Amboyer

As actors, we are always playing other characters. It's so exhausting and time consuming to figure them out, so when you get…

— Alia Bhatt

I prefer being known for my stand-up because I write it. I love being an actor, and saying other people's words is…

— Kathy Griffin

I love my job, I love being an actor and stepping into the shoes of different characters and exploring their lives. It's…

— Hilary Swank

Transformation as a female actor is allowed up to a certain extent - as long as they can still recognize you on…

— Andrea Riseborough

So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to be in…

— Linda Lavin

I think there are all sorts of ways of turning into an actor, and there are a vast variety of different actors.…

— John Lithgow

I think it's that wherever I go, people are so nice to me, and they come up by the hundreds, and they…

— Adam West

I was this weird misfit guy from suburban Seattle, I never really fit in, and then I became a drama geek, among…

— Rainn Wilson

It's weird because I once lost a job because I had a chemistry read with the lead actor, and I could tell…

— Cristin Milioti

I wasn't one of those people who went to see a play and said, 'I want to be an actor.' I fell…

— Henry Czerny

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must…

— Laurence Olivier

I always call myself the luckiest actor in the world because I made a living solely as a performer from the time…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

The best actors in the world are the actors who don't keep the walls up all the time and allow themselves the…

— Mick Garris

When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you…

— Elia Kazan

If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest…

— Samuel Johnson

I do not make an effort to promote myself as a brand. I just focus on making the right choices that feel…

— Kirti Kulhari

So many actors who are really gifted and talented just don't get the opportunity. I happened to get that opportunity.

— Margo Martindale

Actors have either got to play something that's close to them, or something that's the complete opposite.

— Andrew Dominik

I want to be a working actor; I want to do jobs that excite me and challenge me, and I want to…

— Nathan Fillion

Everybody always feels that they're right even if they're wrong and that's what a whole actor's career is built around rationalizing your…

— Clint Eastwood

What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your…

— Martin Short

The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement.

— Stella Adler

When I'm shooting, I don't care who the star is. I have an actor playing a part, and I'm serving the script,…

— Alexander Payne

I can tell stories to other actors about the level of aggression on stage in the '70s between actors - it was…

— Jonathan Pryce

If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought…

— Valorie Curry

Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd…

— Neil Simon

I didn't want to escape my life and become a big actress and live my dreams. That was never the way it…

— Maisie Williams

I've done so much different stuff, people kinda go, 'Do you live in Islington?' 'Did you used to go to so and…

— David Harewood

I feel that a lot of roles in television can really typecast someone as one type of actor or playing one type…

— Alexander Gould

Christian Bale has a kind of genetically engineered handsomeness that's perfect for [John Preston]. He's also a better actor than he ever…

— Richard Roeper

For me, theatre and cinema are both pillars of an actor's life; I'd feel very half-baked if I was only doing one…

— Neeraj Kabi

I never say, 'I only want to do things like this,' I am not that sort of actor. I don't have that…

— William Fichtner

... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.

— Julia Marlowe