Actor Quotes · Page 67

You have to be selfish to be an actor.

— Charles Dance

I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

— Salman Rushdie

Acting is not my language at all.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

— Richard Madden

Acting is what I do with who I am.

— Harriet Walter

I'm a professional actor, not a celebrity.

— Pam Ferris

An actor is a thinking person.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

I don't have actor training myself.

— John Hawkes

As theater artists, it's a great luxury to have time.

— Jonathan Freeman

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?

— Harold Pinter

Once you become an actor, you have to say goodbye to your personal life.

— Vijay Deverakonda

If you've been in drama school for eight years, you've got teachers in your head all the time.

— Jonathan Majors

As an actor, you can't be off the market for too long.

— Matt Dillon

I don't think any actor wants their children to follow them into the profession.

— Helena Bonham Carter

[His acting] remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.

— Vincent Canby

I love acting. I'm actually a very emotional actor.

— Rachel Bloom

When my oldest brother started acting. From there, I wanted to act myself. That's the long story short.

— Mara Wilson

I would love to direct an 'Apes' movie. It would be in the spirit of where I'm going with my career -…

— Andy Serkis

I always wanted to do a Hollywood story. The thing about actors, though, is that they go through a streak of roles.

— Tom Folsom

I think I would have had trouble living with someone who didn't know what it was like to be an actor.

— Pam Ferris

You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

— Lance Henriksen

At a certain point, I had to be like, 'I will not do any more auditions with a Middle Eastern accent.'

— Jason Mantzoukas

There aren't as many roles for people who look like me, and it was always complicated when it came to casting my…

— Meaghan Rath

Human beings are, necessarily, actors who...can be divided...into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.

— W. H. Auden

Many accents and languages is part of myself has definitely played an important role in who I am today as an actor.…

— Massimo Dobrovic

I was a huge theater nerd when I was younger, so I was in a bunch of school musicals - Working,' South…

— Leigh Bardugo

I think there are a lot of actors who are excellent at cold reads, and they go to an audition, and they…

— Jeff Baena

'Sarfarosh' has made people realize that I can act. This film has made me grow as an actor. There was a general…

— Mukesh Rishi

If you count my childhood appearances in a few TV shows and being the son of two well-known actor parents in the…

— Linus Roache

When I first started pursuing acting professionally out of college, it was very much in my head that there would be comparisons…

— Zoe Perry

He kept alive the best parts of the old-fashioned industry, which was just 'I'm not gonna gas you up to your face.'…

— Rachel Zegler

Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer.…

— Orson Welles

Actors just need each other to act together.

— Steven Spielberg

Actors will say 'yes' to anything.

— Michael Keaton

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress.

— Dorothy Parker

I'm not a big classical actor.

— Nigel Hawthorne

I think it's important to be a generous actor.

— Aimee Lou Wood

My father was a great actor.

— Stephen Humphrey Bogart

I think every actor has their ups and downs.

— Mohnish Bahl

Theater's literally where I started.

— Brian Tyree Henry