As an actor, you don't have much choice about your appearance. It's a good excuse for looking ridiculous. — Kit Harington Copy Share Image
My brother, Chris Massey from 'Zoey 101', was acting first at a young age. I just followed in my sibling's footsteps. — Kyle Massey Copy Share Image
My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever. I want to… — Ansel Elgort Copy Share Image
In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
I think one of the great things about casting writer-performers is that you hope people will always add more to scenes and… — Katy Wix Copy Share Image
I love to kind of people watch; that's part of what I do as an actor and creative person and sort of… — Kate Walsh Copy Share Image
Having grown up around the theater, I've been moved by so many plays. Being a part of it, however small, is special. — Miguel Ferrer Copy Share Image
We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV… — Sylvester McCoy Copy Share Image
Reading is how I became an actor because I didn't grow up in a house where there was an awareness of film… — Mary Steenburgen Copy Share Image
As as an actor, you have to be able to relate with the character and be able to create those little thing… — Sanjay Mishra Copy Share Image
What I say about actors is you always want to find an actor you can play ball with. You throw the ball… — Robert Knepper Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was fortunate that we grew up near a children's theater, with all different classes and things; so as… — Andrew Rannells Copy Share Image
Ultimately, theatre is about creating a sense of wonder, and I think wonder is achieved not by a kind of wide-eyed silliness… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I was in several school performances, mainly Shakespeare and comedic roles. I just accidentally became an actor. I totally didn't expect this. — Millicent Simmonds Copy Share Image
I've worked in supermarkets, put tags in baseball caps and provided security during Wimbledon, but I never thought acting would be something… — Claire Foy Copy Share Image
It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me… — Cathy Rigby Copy Share Image
But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore. — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Actors are a lot like professors on dissertation committees - it's a lot of ego, a lot of rallying for position, there… — Mayim Bialik Copy Share Image
With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them. — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
Sometimes, as actors, if we work hard enough and stay at it long enough and are malleable and directable, then good things… — Peter Scolari Copy Share Image
What's frustrating as an actor, when you want to work hard, you can only work once that phone rings and then you… — Jason Bateman Copy Share Image
I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character… — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth… — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
As actors, emotion is the sand in the sandbox for us. Without emotion, there's nothing to play - and we are playing.… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
I literally never thought I would be playing a pregnant cis woman earnestly. I thought maybe I'd do that in a sketch… — Patti Harrison Copy Share Image
I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads… — Theo James Copy Share Image
I have worked with so many actors, some have been stars, while at times, I have been at a better standing than… — Abhinav Shukla Copy Share Image
You come back with an actor for the second time only when you had a successful and creatively satisfying experience the first… — Vijay Krishna Acharya Copy Share Image
It's so funny how it's impossible for an American actor to play an English part or an Australian part. But by all… — Boyd Holbrook Copy Share Image
Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Before shooting, I prepare with the actors much more like it's a theater play than a movie. Apparently, that way of working… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
As an actor, your job is half done when your co-star becomes your friend, especially when it's Judi Dench. — Ali Fazal Copy Share Image
I've got a lot to learn, and I'm very blessed to work with such talented actors. I'm nowhere near my goal. It's… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
A lot of auditions are not fun; they're just a necessary evil, and, if you're lucky, you have a few moments that… — Kristen Connolly Copy Share Image
Somehow, I have no idea how the transition was made from wanting to be an archeologist or a marine biologist, to wanting… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
When I was a kid being an actor was not cool. I'm thirty now and when I was a kid in the… — Vincent Kartheiser Copy Share Image
