Actor Quotes · Page 365

You know what I mean, I'm not Tom Cruise. I can act as long as the character happens to look and sound…

— John Bishop

I really hope acting is going to be my career to the end, but you don't know anything, really, do you?

— Kierston Wareing

I want to do roles that I believe in and something that can help me get results as an actor. I am…

— Mohnish Bahl

I'm an actor for hire. It's important not to forget that you're disposable…When you have that mentality, you fight for the jobs…

— Scarlett Johansson

I think the most important thing for an actor is your personality and if someone wants you to change that, then you…

— Kunal Kapoor

The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out…

— Christopher Plummer

It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.

— Kate Burton

I guess it's a kind of a goal for any actor to be the lead of a movie. Not for ego reasons,…

— Seth Rogen

You never know when you're taking a job, ever... but you try to take good scripts. That's all you can do as…

— Damian Lewis

My sister happened to look at The Times, and there was advertised the Old Vic theatre school. I wrote, I suppose, and…

— June Brown

When I'm working on the scripts or working with the other actors or rehearsing with the director, and when the director is…

— Andy Serkis

For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the…

— Neil Tennant

I know that I'm an actor and I guess I could kind of put on an act, but it takes so much…

— Brie Larson

I loved being on the other side of the camera and interacting with the crew. When you are an actor, you have…

— Angelina Jolie

I thought I might get a part as a farmer. I knew about the books but I hadn't read them. A few…

— Christopher Timothy

Acting is an imaginative exercise. It would be odd if you didn't try to identify with the roles you play, but I…

— John Hurt

I get very excited when I see Govinda on-screen. I love him. What a great actor, there is no better actor than…

— Chunky Pandey

At 9, I started taking classes at Sylvia Young Theatre School. One day, they asked if I wanted to join their agency.…

— Ella Purnell

These are rare moments in an actor's life, where you're put in an environment which is so natural, and you get natural…

— Amitabh Bachchan

“Forget being a decent man, Terence. Go for castability. Could you even play a decent man in a movie?”

— Lorrie Moore

As an actor, you never want to feel like a tool. You never want to feel like, "Hey, just come here, say…

— Michael B. Jordan

I was a bit hesitant in theatre initially, but ever since I jumped into it, I have been pretty enthusiastic.

— Poonam Dhillon

If you're an actor, you have to look spiffing. But as the director, you don't need to look so glamorous.

— Phyllida Lloyd

I'm always just drawn to those roles that present one way and have many other things going on underneath. It's just more…

— Carrie Preston

Acting can be very solitary, even if you're in a scene with someone else, because you worry about your own performance and…

— Masi Oka

As an actor you use your imagination to put yourself in the shoes of bad guy characters. You create a story as…

— David Dayan Fisher

I dont comment on my relationships, so you can skip that one! My anonymity is something I treasure. Wanting to be an…

— Blake Lively

“Some of them will, but most of them are willed. Some of them are genuine, but most of them are bad actors.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When I decided I wanted to be an actor in high school, I really went into improv. I took classes at The…

— Simon Helberg

Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get…

— Toni Servillo

I think my job is to deliver the best, most cinematic, rich, exciting, surprising and emotional version of 'Camelot.'

— Chris Chibnall

My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.

— Samantha Bond

For me, I think you make a choice what kind of actor you want to be, and then it's kind of the…

— Betsy Brandt

I think actors really like to know what does a casting agent really think or what does a composer really think.

— Julie Halston

Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a challenge, a technical challenge, just…

— Tom Stoppard

I just remember watching my first theater class, and I was like, 'Oh I can get up there,' like I could absolutely…

— Brian Tyree Henry

Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you…

— Malin Akerman

You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous,…

— Whoopi Goldberg

Promotions are the worst part of making a movie. We are actors and not salesmen. Still, you have to go to so…

— Ranbir Kapoor

What you choose to do professionally is a reflection of yourself and I take that seriously as an actor. But even as…

— Logan Lerman