The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor. — Tom Courtenay Copy Share Image
I was scouted at the age of 10 by a Hollywood agent. I was a really shy, geeky-looking thing, and started in… — Austin Butler Copy Share Image
I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which… — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself. — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
In terms of jobs, I'm an actor. There's gotta' be depth there. I'd never say yes to something just to play the… — Bill Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Once you've been booked, people in Hollywood say, 'Oh he must be good.' All the while you're the same actor. — Joel McHale Copy Share Image
I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were… — Tadanobu Asano Copy Share Image
I'm not looking for a series. I love TV. I love developing characters over a long amount of time. I think for… — Christina Hendricks Copy Share Image
What fuels me is that there are a lot of people coming to Broadway and to the show [Aladdin] for the first… — Adam Jacobs Copy Share Image
I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater,… — T. J. Miller Copy Share Image
As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I started taking lessons in third grade because I thought it was a fun thing to do. Through my acting teacher, I… — Jared Gilman Copy Share Image
All good actors are very bright. You can't be stupid and a good actor. You may be inarticulate, you may not be… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
There are the obstacles of your position as an actor, not being a commodity enough to be hired by the big directors… — Adrien Brody Copy Share Image
I don't want to be 45 years old and have been a hot actor when I was 33 and have people going,… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous… — James Spader Copy Share Image
As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done. — Dakota Blue Richards Copy Share Image
I have a career I am proud of as a child actor. I'm not running away from it or embarassed with anything… — Ricky Schroder Copy Share Image
When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there. — Tamsin Egerton Copy Share Image
The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film. — Nawazuddin Siddiqui Copy Share Image
I don't do all of this as an indulgence. I do it because I'm not a good enough actor to not do… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
My mom was a great influence on my life. A real encourager in terms of acting because she was an avid reader… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I never trained in any acting, other than just joking around and doing my own dinky little videos. — Dylan O'Brien Copy Share Image
It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
A lot of shows are more script-driven, like a prose script. As an actor, you never see a storyboard. — Tom Kenny Copy Share Image
Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
The people on programmes like 'Made in Chelsea' just want to be celebrities. It's so depressing. No proper actor has that as… — Kelly Macdonald Copy Share Image
I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
I got into medicine at university, then deferred a year to see. Then I started acting and just never went back to… — Miranda Otto Copy Share Image
A friend bought me a plane ticket to Hawaii, which is where I got discovered and became an actor, so I guess… — Chris Pratt Copy Share Image
If you give an actor any wiggle room to whine in situations where they want to whine, you're gonna whine. — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
When I was 15 and had the light bulb moment I wanted to be an actor, it was my sole focus and… — Anna Gunn Copy Share Image
As an actor you should be able to store and recollect your experiences and work on them as an actor as and… — Sudha Chandran Copy Share Image
Every actor's different. It seems to me the older veterans, they don't need to hear as much. But younger actors need a… — Robert Lorenz Copy Share Image
Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was… — Joan Allen Copy Share Image
There are actors who just bring an enormous amount of empathy. They just have that"it" that makes you want to follow them… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
I must be thankful that I get to do intense dramatic roles, because it takes so much more, whereas I've been doing… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
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