Actor Quotes · Page 79

As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do.

— Michael Cudlitz

I am an actor. What I am on screen is what matters.

— Radhika Apte

An actor can make an impact even in a role of five minutes.

— Manini Mishra

When you're an actor, you can be hindered by your own narcissism.

— Amanda Peet

I always hated the world "acting" - to say, "I'm an actor." It should be more like a believer.

— Michael Jackson

Before marriage acting was my livelihood, but now it has become my passion.

— Navya Nair

I'm not an actor. I can show up for friends and improvise a little bit, but I'm not an actor.

— Robert Downey, Sr

I usually prefer casting actors from our own industry.

— Vignesh Shivan

I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be…

— James Purefoy

When the actor you're developing a rapport with is directing, you feel much more camaraderie about scenes, and you can relate in…

— Sondra Locke

My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite…

— John Mahoney

Acting is revealing the truth that is already within you and that reflects the character that you're doing.

— Ron Cephas Jones

I don't remember, at 19, someone giving me a golden key and saying, 'Welcome to Hollywood; which job would you like?'

— Jessica Capshaw

Thankfully, I have a background as an actor, and you learn how to live in that world of not knowing what's going…

— Jon Favreau

I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.

— Toby Jones

Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.

— Tom Stoppard

When I was little, I didn't know you got paid for acting. My parents put the money in the bank for me,…

— Chelan Simmons

I think people imitate actors - things they've seen in a movie or on TV, and before you know it, they're doing…

— Tina Barney

It kind of varies. I don’t have a method yet. It depends on the script and the character I think I need.…

— Zoe Kravitz

Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to be muscular, challenging, get audiences…

— Samuel Barnett

I don't want to be quoted as 'Tom Hiddleston, psychologist says...' But there is a psychological aspect to being an actor. We…

— Tom Hiddleston

As I grew older, I worked less as an actor and as a model, and I went back to what I had…

— Isabella Rossellini

“When one sees what happens in the world between the religions, the different religions - killing each other and murdering each other,…

— Omar Sharif

I do have the ability to explore life and to be over the moon at the smallest thing - a few pints…

— Colin Farrell

There's no one more willing to do something than an actor when it comes to perfecting a scene.

— Eric Braeden

Inevitably, every part an actor plays contains some of himself.

— David Suchet

Actors require flexibility, a kind of openness and readiness to leave their comfort zone.

— Atul Kulkarni

I'd always really wanted to act; but the modelling contracts came more easily.

— Jamie Dornan

As an actor you have to be vulnerable or you're just not going to cut it.

— Asher Keddie

Acting is a hard profession. More than anything, it takes fortitude.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Acting requires a great amount of empathy for real lived human experiences.

— Cole Sprouse

I really love school, but I'd love to continue acting jobs if I can.

— Georgie Henley

There's a Zen to acting, by being in the moment. That's where the power is.

— Christine Ebersole

Acting in 'Solo' has truly been a wonderful and blissful journey for me.

— Neha Sharma

In theatre, you learn the story is more important than the actor.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

As I got older, I auditioned for drama school and shocked myself by getting in.

— Tuppence Middleton

I may be a B-movie star, but I work. I'm an actor.

— Robert Englund

The acting world is a humbling experience, I find.

— Sharlto Copley

Look, I'm an actor, I'm not a politician. I'm not a statistician. I'm not a legislator.

— Tom Hanks

As an actor, you get humbled all the time. Everyone is a critic.

— Joe Regalbuto