Actor Quotes · Page 383

I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff.

— Matthew Lewis

As an actor, you don't want to say, 'I'm going to be loud and big.' Because that looks awful; that looks fake.

— Alan Tudyk

No, Not even remotely...Because I don't care. I don't pick roles based on how famous they are going to make me, I…

— Erin Daniels

Sometimes you'll be on sets, and people will be fighting and there will be some nasty person that thinks they're the next…

— Alexandra Breckenridge

Mr. Brooks and I have been friends forever. He is in seventh heaven with his new success on Broadway.

— Dom DeLuise

I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble with me…

— Patricia Richardson

I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.

— Billy Eichner

There's no better gift to an actor than when you walk into an audition, and the casting director is your partner.

— Annaleigh Ashford

I have been in five Harry Potter films and never read a 'Harry Potter' book. If you are an actor, all you…

— Michael Gambon

Coz its never easy to be playing a role of somebody. And who says pretending is an easy job? Who says you…

— Myself

There's something great about being a really young actor because you don't have a chance to be nervous. You don't know anything…

— Henry Lloyd-Hughes

I didn't know how to act at all. I got a seat in college through the extra curricular admission quota, and it…

— Sargun Mehta

I think you should identify with your character, but plenty of people like themselves and hate themselves. You just have to find…

— Peter Vack

“Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want…

— Steven R. McQueen

I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you…

— Kevin Bacon

My dad passed when I was 6. I found out when I was about 21 that my dad always said acting would…

— Malachi Kirby

I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write…

— Harvey Fierstein

Sometimes you look at a movie and you can see that the actor or actress said, 'I'm taking this onboard because I'm…

— Viggo Mortensen

We actors can't say every line as if it has weight, but what we want to do is be true to the…

— Anika Noni Rose

I never wanted to be a fashion designer, although there is a book somewhere of fashion design I did for a collection…

— Gwendoline Christie

I set a goal for myself in being an actor and moving out to L.A., and I really felt I had achieved…

— Nick Gehlfuss

Most actors will tell you, when they've got emotional stuff that's hard to carry around for hours and hard to try to…

— Jeff Perry

I feel as though, as an actor, you can only make brave choices when you're acting with people that you're so relaxed…

— Jaime Murray

Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.

— Sophie Marceau

Wyndham's is a beautiful old theatre. The sensation on the stage isn't as different as you might think from the Royal Court.

— Sophie Thompson

You can get a bit world-weary in this job, and 'The Passion' reminded me of what a fantastic job acting is and…

— James Nesbitt

I think any actor who talks in beatings-up is just talking himself up. I tend to not bring them up.

— Sam Worthington

I'm from the old school of actors who are convinced too much exposure on TV isn't good for a long career.

— Van Heflin

I've always believed in trying to be as open as possible. I think it almost comes with the job - if you…

— Emilia Fox

My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an…

— Ajay Naidu

I did great things in the theater. I did some nice roles, 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' or 'La Vie en…

— Emmanuelle Seigner

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theatre, or…

— Arthur Miller

Create your own path. Cultivate it. It'll take time. It doesn't happen overnight. I was an actor for many years before I…

— Matthew Bonifacio

My father was a GP; my mother was a teacher and amateur actress. My father was a bit of a storyteller, but…

— Ciaran Hinds

It's a really unique acting opportunity to play two roles who are not only interacting with each other, but vastly different.

— Jesse Eisenberg

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things…

— Paul Haggis

I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that.

— Aidan Turner

I wanted to be an actor to act, and now, being an actor, you have to dress up, you have to be…

— Vincent Cassel

I never applied to any acting schools. I don't know if that's just bad reporting, or - sometimes I just make stuff…

— Christian Bale