Actor Quotes · Page 74

Actors don't like to read what they're supposed to do.

— Ewan McGregor

For a movie actor, the biggest challenge on TV is the number of close-up shots.

— Sonali Bendre

I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor.

— Alan Arkin

I always look forward to roles that excite me as an actor.

— Amala Paul

Denzel [Washington] just knows the actor. He knows the process, and you don't often get that.

— Viola Davis

Ordinarily, when you go to see a play, an awful lot is presented in front of your eyes.

— Ian McElhinney

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

— Melissa Leo

The biggest reason for choosing 'Save Me' was the opportunity to work with excellent actors.

— Ok Taec-yeon

It was tough to try to be serious in front of Halle Berry and Pierce Brosnan with all this stuff in my…

— Rick Yune

As an actor, when you don't have a reference to pick from, you experiment, try out new things. And what comes of…

— Sidharth Malhotra

When I call 'Action,' I love to be surprised. And the actors I've been fortunate enough to work with always surprise me…

— Zal Batmanglij

I really feel like the stars have aligned many ways, many times for me. I have been blessed to play some awesome…

— Teyonah Parris

I've always known I wanted to be an actress. I didn't know quite how I was going to get there because I…

— Danielle Brooks

At NSD, I had an amazing experience learning everything from stagecraft to western drama and Shakespeare, Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekov.

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Broadway was very vital back in the '20s. There were probably close to hundreds of productions that opened up through the course…

— George C. Wolfe

I realised success as an actor alone wouldn't make me happy. I needed to explore my spiritual side in more depth.

— Linus Roache

You often hear that people go into show business to find the love they never had when they were children. Never believe…

— Mel Brooks

Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the…

— Simon McBurney

DYT, under the direction of Paula Garfield, was my first experience of deaf performing arts and I loved my time there. It…

— Rose Ayling-Ellis

What's interesting was with all the shows I did on Broadway, I was either the dance captain or the assistant choreographer -…

— Rob Marshall

I realized that there was something internal that I could gain from pursuing this career as an actor. However, once I got…

— Sonja Sohn

As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film…

— Kara Hayward

I've always been a sign language interpreter in the court system, and running out to do an audition so I could do…

— Paul Raci

There's a certain secret every actor must have in his work. If you reveal it, you're letting the audience in on the…

— Frank Langella

Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.

— Robert Ludlum

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

— Laura Carmichael

I didn't even think about movies where I came from. I wanted to be on the stage.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

— Sarah Paulson

That would be a really ugly headline: 'American Actor Dies the Dumbest Way Possible.'

— Brendan Hunt

The actors have confidence in me to let me lead them to unexpected things.

— Christophe Honore

If I hadn't made it as an actor, I might have wound up a hood.

— Steve McQueen

The thing about me is I have a great little acting school. I teach about 125 students.

— Luke Ford

Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.

— Tony Kushner

I think 'Humans' has massively improved me as an actor.

— Emily Berrington

I just wanted to be a guy who could earn a living as an actor, and I did that for a long…

— Gene Barry

You take advantage of your position as a famous actor to meet women.

— James Franco

When I see an emotion being enacted by a great actor, I always feel I can never do that.

— Naseeruddin Shah

For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.

— Jack Klugman

No one from my town has ever become a model or an actor before.

— Jacquelyn Jablonski

I've learned that, as an actor, I have a responsibility to my audience.

— Coco Martin