Actor Quotes · Page 327

My dad was a theater actor, so I would follow him backstage. And my mom was a casting director. The moment I…

— Christian Slater

Jackson doesn't bother to read the scripts anymore. He just checks to make sure he has one loud scene where he gets…

— Samuel L. Jackson

I've always wanted to write, I've always wanted to direct. The conscious decision was always to not be an actor.

— Sam Levinson

The part I like best was my role in 'Blood and Sand.' If I had died, I would have liked to be…

— Rudolph Valentino

I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.

— Sam Shepard

After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo.

— Clive Owen

Supporting actors are the support. You can't make a building without support. You can't buy dinner without support.

— Melissa Leo

I thought that studying the performing arts and becoming an actress would give me a reason to leave home at a younger…

— Zhao Wei

Before 'Local Hero,' I'd been knocking about Glasgow in rock bands, drinking too much and generally being 21. My opinion of actors…

— Peter Capaldi

If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act…

— Brenda Ueland

The big challenge for me was just trying to ignore the embarrassment of being an actor. It's a pretty embarrassing thing to…

— Chris Pratt

No, I don't get obsessed with acting. Because in the past when I have got obsessed about it, it really got in…

— Liam Neeson

Every day, I just thank the universe that I am as lucky as I am. Because, I went through periods of time…

— Melissa Benoist

That's always my ambition is to create a character out of what will help tell the story. I've never been an actor…

— Harrison Ford

It was only after university that I said to myself that I had to take the risk and have a serious go…

— Felicity Jones

As an actor, you do feel very powerless... you are at the whim of the agent who submits you for a project,…

— Donna Lynne Champlin

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevitability on some…

— Rebecca Hall

Apparently Jamie is great at being soft and hard at the same time. Which is hard to do for an actor! He's…

— Kelly Marcel

Being just an actor, sometimes people are like, "Hey, man, we don't wanna see you no more, in front of the camera,"…

— Jamie Foxx

I became popular very young. I viewed myself as just a young actor trying to figure out how to do well, and,…

— Josh Hartnett

I've always said, 'Besides Kiefer Sutherland, I talked on a cell phone more than any other actor on a TV show.'

— Kevin Connolly

I love acting. I had a backup option in writing or direction. But I have gone on to become an actor.

— Vijay Deverakonda

I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.

— John Malkovich

For me, acting is not a job. It is something I love. I don't do these things for awards or rewards. I…

— Aamir Khan

Life of an actor is not his or hers: it's everyone's life. Nothing is private; nothing is personal. If you're doing great…

— Kartik Aaryan

I've always thought if you watch the performance and you don't know about the person, then you only see the performance.

— Janet McTeer

I never wanted to be an actor. Till my third film, I didn't imagine that I would continue acting. I didn't like…

— Konkona Sen Sharma

Theater is a thankless art. When the curtain goes down, that is all. It doesn't really mean anything. Memories are very short,…

— Agnes Moorehead

I act, produce, and direct. They are three different jobs all within the same realm of creativity. I enjoy all of them…

— Prithviraj Sukumaran

I know how difficult it is to be an actor and work and then have to look after your personal life.

— Soha Ali Khan

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.

— Logan Marshall-Green

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we…

— Vincent D'Onofrio

I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie'…

— Michelle Williams

My brother, who's a violinist now, was the real ham, the real performer of the family. His passion for the violin is…

— Peter Dinklage

Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent.

— Lee Majors

Every lawyer is an actor. The place where a lawyer's acting ability shines most is certainly in the courtroom, but it works…

— Jamey Sheridan

I was a mime. I'm not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a…

— Kerry Bishe

I'm a broadway girl, so anytime someone would sing my entrance music, that was probably my absolute favorite thing.

— Scarlett Bordeaux

The aim is to move from doing just action dramas to establishing myself as someone who can do family dramas as well.

— Duniya Vijay

Arnold Schwarzenegger made his tax returns public, [and] now there's a problem about him stretching the truth. Apparently under occupation he put…

— Jay Leno