Actor Quotes · Page 76

It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.

— Adam Driver

As an actor, you use the things from yourself that you can apply to the character.

— Robert De Niro

I think I have the finest body of work of any American actor.

— Richard Dreyfuss

Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

— Josh Peck

I didn't like the idea of acting back in school. Both my brothers were into it.

— Aditya Roy Kapur

I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody.

— Joan Chen

I don't know how I could have an acting career with this.

— Connie Sellecca

I wish every actor had fame like Salman Khan in the film fraternity.

— Ravi Kishan

The maddening thing is as actors of either sex, we get better as we get older, and so when you are 65,…

— Joanna Lumley

It's no fun to be a struggling young actor. It's a desperate thing, no way to be happy. If you have any…

— Tommy Lee Jones

I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience…

— Cate Blanchett

Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for…

— Adam Driver

I knew that I always wanted to be a filmmaker, an actor, a writer and a director, that was always my plan.

— Jaime King

Whether or not I would be able to be an actor without the music I'm not sure, but I feel pretty lucky…

— Tyler Hilton

Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to…

— Tana French

It takes a lot out of you to do a one-hour episodic lead of a show. I don't think actors realize that…

— Jane Krakowski

I've always known from the beginning of my acting career that you only get an acting job if you've got something to…

— Lance Henriksen

You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you…

— John Francis Daley

For me, it's all I've wanted to do. I did local plays and productions, local theater groups and anything that involved it.…

— Colin Morgan

As a kid, you either wanted to play Bond or a Bond villain. Ask any of my friends in entertainment, whether they…

— Robert Davi

Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front…

— Cate Blanchett

To be honest, I never went to school for acting, and I never learned to break down a script. I took acting…

— Shailene Woodley

I was lucky to get into drama school and become a professional actor. No-one ever mentioned the colour of my skin. It's…

— David Harewood

A lot of actors on film sets... very often they're not paying attention to the physical world around them. I think through…

— Andy Serkis

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

— Alicia Vikander

Going to London at 18 to study drama and theatre made me grow up really fast.

— Kalki Koechlin

I think that's really the allure of acting for me. I really want to connect with people.

— Kofi Siriboe

For everybody, the tide comes in, the tide goes out - if you're an actor, particularly.

— Alan Arkin

I’m a comedian who got into movies, so I don’t really think of myself as an actor.

— Eddie Murphy

That said, I'd love to do a musical, either in film or on stage.

— Reese Witherspoon

I'm an actor, I'm not a comedian, I never was a comedian.

— Jonah Hill

I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland.

— Morena Baccarin

Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.

— Lance Reddick

Martin Scorsese was very much the actor's director. We were all very in awe of Martin Scorsese.

— John Heard

Getting into character to become 'Pretty' Ricky Conlan for the 'Creed' film was surreal.

— Tony Bellew

And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.

— Matthew Vaughn

That's what theater does, right? You all become this little family.

— Molly Gordon

As an actor I am prepared for every role, that's my profession.

— Neena Gupta

It's a difficult thing as an actor not to repeat one's self.

— Michael Fassbender

I think all actors have a sadomasochistic streak, because acting is kind of brutal, you know.

— Michelle Pfeiffer