Actor Quotes · Page 276

One of the views of the [actor's] job is that whatever age you are, there's a role that's about who you are…

— Clive Owen

We as actors ought to breathe life into a character and do it seamlessly to connect with the audiences.

— Tridha Choudhury

Everybody in L.A. wants to be an actor. I just wish I could meet somebody who doesn't act or sing.

— Miranda Cosgrove

Do you see what I mean?! About the theater?! I'm back here for three hours and I'm acting like a lunatic. I'll…

— Ken Ludwig

I love acting because it's this space where dreams can be realized, fantasy comes to life, and there are no limitations on…

— Jessica Alba

“It surprised him to see that the play which he had known at rehearsals for a disjointed lifeless thing had suddenly assumed…

— James Joyce

There are a lot of actors who wish there was a next play, a next musical. As an actor, I guess that's…

— Lea Salonga

I'm just an actor when the camera's on. The rest of the time I'm just Kenny, and I just do what I…

— Ken Wahl

I would love to be on Broadway. I would love to do a three-month run, similar to how celebrities do a three-month…

— Rochelle Aytes

None of the actor methods ever discussed what it would be like to play a character on film for over a decade,…

— Vin Diesel

I started acting pretty much by accident. I was doing read-throughs for a playwright who I was assisting, and then an agency…

— Guy Burnet

I can't wait to do a fully improvised script again, to find people who are really comfortable and into it. It's about…

— Lynn Shelton

I had no agenda in writing this play except expressing myself. . . . It later occurred to me that I was…

— Mart Crowley

I don't think anybody in my graduating class would have figured that I would be doing full-on single-camera comedies or sitcoms, or…

— Brooke Nevin

I do hear about these actors who go on vacations to Bali for three months, and their agents are banging their heads…

— Erin Cummings

For an actor, for me, I love being able to tap into just heavy emotions. I don't need to be balling in…

— Aaron Paul

I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working…

— Francesca Annis

I was having a dilemma whether I wanted to return to acting at all because I was coming from this sort of…

— Cole Sprouse

It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.

— David Mamet

I don't know what it's like to be an actor, where if your show gets canceled, really you're just a bum.

— Louis C. K

I want to be a professional. I want to be like my TV father, Bill Smitrovich. He's an easy, calm actor. I…

— Chris Burke

Well, I'm a character actor, and actually throughout my life I've... I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I've done…

— Rene Auberjonois

The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

I really love being a character actor. I have to say I wish it were a little easier. There are still a…

— Missi Pyle

As an actor, those are the roles that you long for. You always want something that's going to kick your last role…

— Helen Mirren

There's so much hocus-pocus about acting styles; there's too much mysticism attached to it. But it's a craft like any other -…

— Naseeruddin Shah

I actually moved from engineering to acting. I think what's important is how talented and passionate you are.

— Kriti Sanon

The way a play is seen is completely dependent on the circumstances and the world in which it is received.

— Harry Hadden-Paton

“Oh honey, have you learned nothing from these plays? Ain't such a line between faking and being.”

— Gayle Forman

I wanted to do Dreamgirls. If they're doing a stage production of Sparkle, I think that would be hot.

— Deborah Cox

I don't normally think of a specific actor. I concentrate on the character, and then when we get into pre-production, that's how…

— Jed Mercurio

I believe that sitting in a street and hearing the people talk, argue, console each other is one workshop every actor must…

— Ravi Kishan

I suppose the reason why I like acting is because I'm curious about human nature, and the less I know about a…

— Rebecca Hall

I'm an actor. I started as an actor. I started on Broadway doing 'Hair' and Shakespeare in the Park.

— Meat Loaf

Frankly, there is no shorter shelf life other than that of a child actor, than that of the ingenue.

— Patricia Arquette

I have the opportunity to learn about the fashion world, and I appreciate it as an art form... But I never want…

— Lupita Nyong'o

I really am having the time of my life. But as far as my future goes, I want to stretch myself as…

— Tom Holland

I went to a lot of theatre schools, got a lot of training, did a lot of repertory where you do a…

— Jeffrey Combs

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

— Rose Byrne

For me 'Meet Mila De Rabba' is a very important project since it will break my on-screen villainous image and prove my…

— Raza Murad