Actor Quotes · Page 68

Acting is kind of brutal.

— Michelle Pfeiffer

I love to continue acting. It's my passion.

— Britt Robertson

Theatrical work means too much work or none.

— Alec-Tweedie

Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.

— Sarah Wayne Callies

I am an actor through and through.

— Dougray Scott

I just wanted to be a working character actor.

— Michael Horse

As an actor, I trust my ear.

— Christopher Guest

I wasn't ambitious though I loved acting.

— Supriya Pathak

Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world.

— Willem Dafoe

But you're right, I did think about acting more and then decided against it.

— Todd Solondz

I'm planning to have a career based on my acting skills rather than the size of my chest.

— Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Good acting should be invisible. You shouldn't be aware of the acting. It should feel real.

— Susanna White

More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor

— Bill W

A lot of being an actor is being something that people imagine you to be.

— Patricia Arquette

I am acting at university, and I have really enjoyed doing student drama.

— Anna Popplewell

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with a team.

— Rene Auberjonois

And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going…

— Morgan Freeman

The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role - unless you're just vain about celebrity.

— Jonny Lee Miller

I'm not an actor, I'm not good looking. It's not what I do, and I don't want to be one. Maybe if…

— Guenther Steiner

I never dreamed of being an actor, but I'm beginning to love it more and more because I like challenging myself. When…

— Kristin Kreuk

Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers.

— Paul Bettany

Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to…

— John Patrick Shanley

My senior year, I got to play Maureen in 'Rent,' and I had more fun than I'd ever had in my life.

— Barrett Wilbert Weed

As a senior in high school, you figure out what you want to do with your life. I asked myself if I…

— Macaulay Culkin

The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting,…

— Patrick Marber

It's something that I feel every young person goes through, this idea that they're not doing enough, or that they're stuck. Definitely…

— Shannon Purser

I try to treat every job with the exact same level of respect. When I go into it, it doesn't matter what…

— Kaya Scodelario

I think I always wanted to be an actor - sounds a bit boring, doesn't it? And I pretended once that I…

— Sophie Thompson

The most important thing to having a long career, as an actor, is diversity and being able to play different types of…

— Josh Hutcherson

We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a…

— Parker Palmer

I've still got lots of writing in me. I have not left journalism, but I put it on hold to focus on…

— Liane Balaban

I'm an actor who appreciates direction.

— Ruby Dee

Concept is what makes actors raise their game.

— Joe Dempsie

I played a lot of character parts in school.

— Matthew Ashford

I was always toying with the idea of acting.

— Vijay Antony

Acting is a tough business to break into.

— Liam Hemsworth

I've been called 'the voice actor.'

— Nick Nolte

I am not born to just become an actor

— Salman Khan

It's really good to be a working actor.

— Ian Harding