Actor Quotes · Page 69

I didn't debut in a film playing a diva.

— Parineeti Chopra

Every actor wants to deliver a hit film.

— Arshad Warsi

I can't not work - I love acting.

— Ayda Field

I'm an old-fashioned theatre major at heart.

— Tom Lenk

Fassbender is fearless; he's a fearless actor.

— Ben Mendelsohn

Doing theater makes you feel like a real actor.

— Laurence Fishburne

Any competent actor could have done what I did.

— Larry Hovis

It's not my goal to be a famous actor

— Gavin DeGraw

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

— Fiona Shaw

Theatre taught me to convert a scene into a vision.

— Hamsalekha

I love being an actor, doing it all. That's not exciting and controversial, but it's true.

— Billy Bob Thornton

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

— Megan Gallagher

Acting is like sex, it’s possible if your partner is bad, but it’s better if they’re good.

— Xavier Samuel

All actors tend to be the same messed-up people.

— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

People don't know and they shouldn't know that you work incredibly hard as an actor.

— James Gandolfini

It's good for an actor to have, well, a big gob.

— Perdita Weeks

Gandalf's a good guy, and it's a good part. He says the right things, he believes the right things. An actor can…

— Ian Mckellen

One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it…

— Joe Pantoliano

I’ve never taken time off from being an actor. This is the kind of career I’d be so happy to do until…

— Ansel Elgort

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to…

— Jonathan Lethem

The very expectation that an actor loves to experiment becomes a shackle that is difficult to snap out of.

— Vijay Sethupathi

I always feel to do mythological and horror shows you need to be terrific actors. I am not that good.

— Barun Sobti

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing…

— William Manchester

Drinking coffee is kinda my major hobby... the great benefit of being an actor is you have all this spare time. My…

— Craig Parker

There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a…

— Damian Lewis

Going through 'The Partridge Family,' I looked up to people like Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and all those guys. But as…

— David Cassidy

Whenever any actor comes into a producer session, they have so many questions, and we still can't really tell them that much…

— Maurissa Tancharoen

I loved putting on stories as plays when I was just six. I was the director, the actress and the set designer;…

— Mili Avital

There are some guys I know for a fact, like Louis C.K., who always talk about how not-great of an actor he…

— Denis Leary

I grew up in a small town where I went to the movies a lot and fell in love with all these…

— Robert Osborne

No, I went through a process just like I would any other job in which my agent received the breakdown for 'Doctor…

— Mandip Gill

In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional optimism of America lurked…

— Brooks Atkinson

I am a versatile actor and ready to experiment.

— Rubina Dilaik

I can't imagine my life without doing theater.

— Thomas Sadoski

I would like to do some musicals.

— Andy Lau

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

— Stephen Rea

I knew I wanted to be in the arts and acting.

— Christopher Jackson

I never lost my appetite for acting.

— Eli Wallach

I didn't decide to be a character actress.

— Carol Kane

I was fired as an actor on 'Bosch.'

— Michael Connelly