Actor Quotes · Page 62

Acting means living, it's all I do...

— Morgan Freeman

Gendered performance is just constant theater.

— Christine and the Queens

There's no real theatre without taking risks.

— Haris Pasovic

You know, I love acting.

— Anne Archer

I was an actor who happened to be a kid.

— Claire Danes

Most actors can't make any kind of living.

— Viggo Mortensen

Method actors are like hams.

— Clark Gable

Derek Jacobi is probably our finest actor.

— Nicola Walker

I'm not opposed to auditioning. I love auditioning. It's one of my favorite things.

— Judy Greer

I'm an actor. That proves how lazy I am. It's foolish to take on any other jobs.

— Fred MacMurray

I'm open to the idea of doing more musicals if it's one that I really enjoy.

— Oscar Isaac

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

— James Badge Dale

As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.

— Talisa Soto

Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.

— Sarah Bernhardt

I always love to learn new things. That's the reason I like being an actor.

— Lupita Nyong'o

Any actor worth his salt has a responsibility to reinvent himself from part to part.

— Matt Smith

Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself…

— Alan Rickman

Acting is very much my life, but acting is what I want to do so to be able to say that is…

— Killian Scott

God, I hate interviews with actors pouncing on. Who wants to know about their lives? I don't want to know about Al…

— Jason Isaacs

People call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied. Now...…

— Danny Aiello

Your body - or my body - is just kind of stupid. Like, your body doesn't know whether you're acting something because…

— Zach Woods

I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over.

— Tom Stoppard

It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've…

— Ryan Gosling

Getting bad reviews or doing something thats not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me…

— Greta Gerwig

All you need to focus on is your craft and how you act; and, of course, script selection, which is a primary…

— Ayushmann Khurrana

Being a kid and growing up in Cleveland, the Tonys were how you saw Broadway shows: you got to hear from each…

— Rory O'Malley

I know that every actor that I know, when Daniel Day-Lewis does a film, and he doesn't work that often, but we…

— Rosemarie DeWitt

There is a vast difference in the pay package of every actor. Actors are also exploited at various levels, but when we…

— Divyanka Tripathi

Acting's an odd profession for a young person; it's so extreme. You work, and the conditions are tough and the process is…

— Michelle Pfeiffer

In the case of two actors connecting with each other and trusting each other, our bodies have memories without us having to…

— Michael Sheen

“My basic profession is as an actor, and I have learnt much about life through working as an actor. Working as an…

— Swami Dhyan Giten

My sense of myself is that I'm a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing, and able to do anything, to…

— John Lithgow

Acting, for me, is not mechanical.

— Mohnish Bahl

The theatre community is so powerful.

— Rory O'Malley

I have realised I am a director's actor.

— Suniel Shetty

Bring It On' gave me my Equity card.

— Ariana DeBose

A lot of what acting is paying attention.

— Nancy Reagan

Child actors don't have great track records.

— Leslie Mann

Actually, I didn't plan to be an actor.

— Coco Martin

Broadway has always been a dream of mine.

— Jessica Chastain