Actor Quotes · Page 449

I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.

— Asghar Farhadi

There might be the odd person in my family who was an artist down the line, but no one in my immediate…

— Chloe Pirrie

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see…

— Bela Lugosi

As an actor, I love the feeling of being on set and the camaraderie of working on something together.

— Allison Williams

The big reason why I became an actor in the first place was to communicate. I never acted in high school...I was…

— Bruce Dern

I have actor friends, but they're not famous. I feel like if you're an actor or - famous, you have to overly…

— Amanda Bynes

I can't pretend at how much I object to all of the plays that keep being brought back over and over again,…

— F. Murray Abraham

Nothing is harder than working with an actor who doesn't take it seriously or show up in the same way that you…

— Jesse Eisenberg

I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't…

— Paddy Considine

I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over.…

— Edward Albee

I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the…

— Chadwick Boseman

I think it's always hard to find great roles, no matter what age you are. So I always say to people, 'You…

— Julianne Moore

I was entirely wrapped up in the idea of becoming an actor. I learned how to write on the job, basically out…

— Glenn Howerton

“I am a Dancer; rehearsing the steps of our unheard song with utmost perfection. Never will you tap your feet consciously. I…

— Ranjani Ramachandran

Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the…

— Brooks Atkinson

If you look at the careers of Philip Seymour Hoffmann, Paul Giamatti, Meryl Streep, none of them shot up in terms of…

— Max Irons

The only problem with Mitch [Pileggi, the actor who plays Skinner] is that his bald head means there's nothing to hold onto…

— David Duchovny

As actors, when we keep working every day, after a point of time, we just know all our emotional cards and how…

— Aditya Roy Kapur

According to me, every actor is struggling in the industry. Someone is trying to live up to their father's name, or someone…

— Neha Dhupia

I know that it's the southern film industries that have made me an actor, and that is where people relate to me…

— Asin

One of my first jobs ever as an actor was working with Julie White on a sitcom called 'Grace Under Fire.'

— Tom Everett Scott

“Toxic people are great actors. They will utilize whichever props are available to maintain control in the relationship.”

— Shannon Thomas

Before I transitioned, I was double-acting, if that makes sense. I was acting being a guy, and I was employed as a…

— Rebecca Root

I'm mixed and I grew up in a predominantly white community. I'm queer, and I'm an actor. There's a lot of boxes…

— Myha'la

It is how you approach the role given to you, and how you relate to that character and then how you adapt…

— Rajiv Menon

It's a funny thing that when things happen in an actor's life, at some point it's just a performance, at another, it's…

— Ashish Vidyarthi

Like every actor, you get notorious for maybe one role and then get offered a lot of similar roles.

— Kit Harington

I think I started out because I was desperate for approval and acceptance and praise. Some actors never break away from that.…

— Judge Reinhold

All of my scenes were with Jason Isaacs. I could definitely see myself going on an adventure with him, and learning as…

— A Fine Frenzy

I did some really bad plays at a children's theater in Kentucky where I'm from and went from there.

— Miles Heizer

I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public…

— Warren Beatty

I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between…

— David Suchet

I do like musicals, but I'm not so well-versed in them. I would rather tell stories that just so happen to have…

— Betty Gabriel

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

— Kevin Bacon

“After Magritte often serves as a companion piece to The Real Inspector Hound, which I think is appropriate in at least one…

— Tom Stoppard

I've always been an actress, entertaining my family was the start. I'm a goof ball among many of my cousins and siblings.

— Aeriel Miranda

When you're doing 22 shows on network television, the writers are going on vapors towards the end and, as an actor, you're…

— Jimmy Smits

But I've always been hard to cast, I've never been an ingenue, I've never been the romantic lead. I'm an actor; give…

— Edie Falco

Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about…

— Kevin Costner

It's like the journey of a police official, who starts from a low rank and goes on to have a high rank.…

— Ammy Virk