Actor Quotes · Page 384

Panja Vaisshnav Tej is such a talented actor. He competed with experienced actors and performed very well.

— Krithi Shetty

My first acting job was playing a drug dealer when I was nine. My one line was 'It's really good shit, man.'…

— Christina Applegate

As an actor, Sean [Penn] is brilliant. And he's really an excellent director, as well. We got along really well.

— Vilmos Zsigmond

As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that.

— Angela Bassett

Then if the actor comes up with, "It's more logical to do this," I just change it [a scene] on the spot.

— Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr

I never ever played the lead role in a play, except at school. I guess the industry that we're in, boys that…

— Mark Indelicato

Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have no illusions about my position in this world as an actor or anything like that. I'm very realistic. Reality is…

— Anthony Hopkins

In auditions, you're not up against anyone else; you're both going in for the role, and it's like, whoever's right for it…

— Matthew James Thomas

Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really…

— Nat Wolff

The fact that there is no right or wrong is what I think is maddening. I can think you're a phenomenal actor,…

— Mila Kunis

Freefall' showcases what I can do, and for Dominic Savage to have faith in me must mean something! I hope my acting…

— Sarah Harding

As soon as the actor steps into the role, you probably can cut 50% of the lines because there's a person there…

— Stanley Tucci

When I was young, in my early films, the freshness, and the raw element in my presence on-screen was coming from my…

— Aditya Roy Kapur

When I was 16, I played Tallulah in 'Bugsy Malone' at the Queen's Theatre. Me and five others shared a flat together…

— Sheridan Smith

As an actor, I had the most power than I've ever had before, because I was able to create and arc and…

— Esme Creed-Miles

My teachers probably tried to get me interested in other things at school, but I was very young when I decided that…

— Marc Warren

I don't know why anyone would want to ask an actor for dating advice. We are not the poster children for healthy…

— Ginnifer Goodwin

After graduating from University, I began directing in theatre too, and I've been directing, writing and acting ever since, which has allowed…

— Pollyanna McIntosh

Sometimes when you're starting out with acting, you have to take what you can get to get experience and meet people.

— Emily Kinney

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

— Lynn Shelton

I'm not a method actor. The techniques that I follow have been created and practiced in my own journey, ones that I…

— Neeraj Kabi

We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast…

— Herman Wouk

For me as an actor, I use a lot of music. Music is a huge part of developing and getting into a…

— Taylor Kitsch

What an actor says is much, much less important than a life, so that's the great use for improvisation; you go, you…

— Giovanni Ribisi

I realized after my first play that no one was going to offer me roles for theatre. So I started my own…

— Mahesh Manjrekar

If you cast really funny, talented people and let them do what they need to do, they're going to hit a home…

— Justin Roiland

Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.

— Bill Murray

I felt sometimes too responsible as an actor because people promote violence or weird things that I don't want to be part…

— Sophie Marceau

The theater is a place that doesn't always but can reward hard work and tenacity, unlike television.

— Michael Urie

I feel like I was born an actor. I did not pursue acting until I was a bit older. But I got…

— Carmen Ejogo

I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor. Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.

— Paul Newman

And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't…

— Rene Auberjonois

I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as…

— Gattlin Griffith

Miramax didn't introduce the actors at any of the screenings. That's why a lot of people thought 'Kids' was a documentary. I…

— Leo Fitzpatrick

Acting can be very intimidating, because you are not in a scene alone, you have to be in sync with so many…

— Lisa Haydon

To stand up against Amitabh Bachchan in 'Bade Miyan Chote Miyan,' you need to be a good actor to be able to…

— Chunky Pandey

George Hearn taught me that you learn that there are roles that are Tony roles and roles that are not.

— Alice Ripley

I feel like every actor charts a different course in their respective career in the industry. Everyone has an individual journey. So,…

— Vaani Kapoor

The most dramatic moves I have made as an actor have been from stage to screen and from sitcom to drama.

— Jasika Nicole