Actor Quotes · Page 40

Dilip Kumar's a great, great actor.

— Waheeda Rehman

Yeah, I went to ACT for a while. It was great.

— Gedde Watanabe

Any day acting is an amazing day.

— Kiernan Shipka

I feel that I am a good actor.

— Burt Lancaster

Wishing is not acting. But willing is acting.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I hate musicals, especially film musicals.

— Santigold

Ultimately, cinema is an actor's medium.

— Ram Gopal Varma

Acting is... I always have a great time.

— Angus Cloud

I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.

— Rainn Wilson

Mandy is not calm. So that's acting. I'm acting. And, and I love playing someone calm.

— Mandy Patinkin

I tested on a lot of TV shows and films after I finished drama school.

— Sam Heughan

One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.

— Maggie Smith

As an actor, I am never scared of taking on a new project.

— Kiku Sharda

I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

— August Strindberg

What I like about acting is that you can be a different person every day.

— Allegra Versace

Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.

— Greta Scacchi

When I grew up, in the time of 'Look Back in Anger,' the theatre was very exciting, a place where you felt…

— Tim Pigott-Smith

Besides stray instances of acting in school and college, I hadn't prepared myself to be an actor.

— Mawra Hocane

Yes, yes, theater in general is just going to always be my first love, performing for a live audience.

— Megan Hilty

“By Real Acting I mean “an imitation of human behavior that is both emotionally natural and mechanically precise enough as to elicit…

— Tina Fey

I'm a power fanatic. I like to own things, and have them be mine. Acting doesn't belong to you, if you're not…

— Karrine Steffans

As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of…

— Christopher Walken

I would like to be part of all kind of cinema and will jump at any opportunity that allows me to experiment…

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

I grew up watching stuff with Jim Carey, Robin Williams and Sandra Bullock in them. I've always been attracted to the actors…

— Amanda Crew

When criticism comes your way as an actor they are not criticizing your writing or your painting or your piece, they are…

— Meryl Streep

I didn't even really know who Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg were, and my parents kept trying to tell me, 'Noah, what…

— Noah Schnapp

I did my first play in fifth grade. This same fifth grade teacher asked me several years later what I wanted to…

— Heather Hemmens

I think I have a tendency to overwork things. I have a hard time finding that sweet spot that most actors seem…

— Paul Giamatti

My dad was a lovely guy. I had great parents. But he was a conservative shopkeeper, and he said, "Look, I don't…

— John Kapelos

I've done so many jobs because I've had to, not because I've wanted to. And it's honourable to do a job because…

— Christoph Waltz

I learnt a lot as a child actor. Since I had been before the camera, I knew how it would be to…

— Kunal Khemu

When theatre works, it's like nothing else, and when it doesn't, which is often, it's excruciating. It's perhaps not so excruciating when…

— Sarah Waters

As an actor, you're never busy enough.

— Bryan Callen

Theater is an amazing outlet.

— Vincent Rodriguez III

I'd just like to carry on acting.

— Nicholas Hoult

I've been an actor since I was a kid.

— Derek Magyar

I am not an activist. I am an actor.

— Kalki Koechlin

Every actor is like, 'I could direct!'

— Domhnall Gleeson

Musicals aren't two-dimensional froth.

— Michael Ball

Actors don't have real value.

— Uwe Boll