Actor Quotes · Page 361

It's nice to stretch in different directions and use different muscles. You can get swallowed into Hollywood, where it's all about bums…

— Kevin Macdonald

“There's nothing I want. There's nothing I can't do. I don't care about anything. No matter what, I am an imposter. An…

— Michelle Hodkin

Lately, I have realised that as an actor, I am representing certain aspirations to the world, and it's important that I respect…

— Swara Bhaskar

An actor has to continuously reinvent himself. So my plea to all directors and scriptwriters is please look at me out of…

— Ashish Vidyarthi

People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life, and I don't have one friend who…

— Sara Paxton

I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.

— Malcolm Gets

The hardest part of directing is the choosing. Unlike an actor who can do a variety of work, it is a year…

— Tom Hooper

As a camera actor, you're constantly in touch with technology. First the technology came into existence and then film acting happened. So…

— Atul Kulkarni

Sanjeev Kumar is one actor whose performances have inspired me. The way he looked and the way he performed are two different…

— Pratik Gandhi

I think there's this idea that the depth of an actor's performance is built on tough times or horrible events or isolation,…

— Milo Ventimiglia

Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason…

— David Mamet

In senior year at college, Paula Vogel was my playwriting teacher; she is the first person to introduce me to the notion…

— Lynn Nottage

My generation of playwrights have grown up writing for studio theatres, and so the task of writing for more than ten or…

— Lee Hall

I have a bachelors of art in screen writing from Chaplan University in California. I didn't pursue writing because in those years…

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

When you see bad acting, that's usually what it is - they're not listening to the other characters. It's always hard with…

— Sean Baker

I think that the more success you have as an actor, I think, the greatest advantage of being successful as an actor…

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

Rigidity is the enemy of acting. And I think that people who stay up all night focusing on every beat they're going…

— Jay Baruchel

A vampire is very easy; you just take a very good-looking actor, put some teeth on them, make them pale, and you're…

— David Hayter

As an actor, you're supposed to be able to form yourself into different characters and different roles. It's a transformation, and it…

— Katie Cassidy

You can't just pick people for their hair color or the shape of their face. You have to go with the best…

— George R. R. Martin

The beauty of theater is that you get to live the character from beginning to end without stopping. The natural momentum of…

— Sterling K. Brown

As an actor, what you really want to do is communicate with people - this is my aim, my principle aim.

— Pierfrancesco Favino

I love what I do, and I can't imagine ever wanting to do anything else, except maybe direct. So, as long as…

— Josh Hutcherson

Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the…

— Alex Borstein

I'm not the kind of actor that gets crazy with [directors'] names, what draws me toward a project is the material itself.

— Javier Bardem

I'm an actor and I like having attention. There's a reason I like being on stage and in front of the camera,…

— Tatiana Maslany

As a child I was on the sets all the time, even during vacation. Had I known I would be an actor,…

— Kalyani Priyadarshan

One of Rani Ma'am friend told my mother, 'Thank you for taking birth' because of which we get to see this actor.…

— Vishal Jethwa

If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

— Kevin Bacon

I have less than no interest in trying to replicate another brilliant actor's work, thank you very much.

— Martin Freeman

Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not…

— Bill Skarsgard

'One Tree Hill' gave me my first shot into acting, and they gave me the biggest chance, and that's something that I'll…

— Stephen Colletti

When we worked together for 'Band Baaja Baaraat,' Ranveer used to be very anxious and hyper on set. He used to do…

— Anushka Sharma

As far as a job, actors get treated a lot better than writers so I definitely prefer acting. A writer has to…

— Colton Dunn

To my mind, talent doesn't really exist. Talent is like a card player's luck. It is motivation, ambition, and luck. It's just…

— Shia LaBeouf

I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I…

— Patrick Duffy

I'm not interested in using my father's death as some touch point for why I've become an actor - it's grossly opportunistic.

— Cate Blanchett

You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous,…

— Kit Harington

Eventually, I realized that there was only so much that I could put in the way of my happiness, and acting made…

— Maya Hawke