Actor Quotes · Page 85

I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.

— Jeremy Irons

I've always identified as an actor. That's what I set out to do.

— Johnny Flynn

I have bullshit moments every once in a while - like every actor does.

— Ryan Reynolds

Every once in a while in an actor's life, a cast comes together.

— Joyce DeWitt

A musical would be fantastic. The soundtrack would be great and I'd like to do acting.

— Melanie Chisholm

Learn your lines… plant your feet… look the other actor in the eye… say the words… mean them.

— James Cagney

No actor wants to play someone else's performance.

— Kate Winslet

I do believe some people can naturally act and don't know it.

— Andrea Arnold

The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific…

— Jason Alexander

I'm not entirely comfortable saying I'm an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost dorky thing to say you are.

— Seth Rogen

Id been wanting to do dramatic work for awhile, and Ive been studying with a really wonderful acting teacher, Diana Castle.

— Kim Wayans

Children are often better actors than adults because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation.

— Alexander Mackendrick

I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as…

— Hedda Hopper

How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?

— Richard Donner

I am sure the audience that looks on me as a Mahadev knows that at the end of the day, I am…

— Mohit Raina

I want to do a biopic as an actor. It's a thrill... I would love it if I am able to do…

— Anushka Sharma

In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience! If you have to choose between the audience…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“It's only just beginning to occur to me that it's important to have something going on somewhere, at work or at home,…

— Nick Hornby

I considered a lot of different jobs as a kid. I thought about becoming a priest or a lawyer. My father had…

— John C. Reilly

You know the way there are two kinds of actors - the De Niro kind who's always De Niro, and then somebody…

— Emma Donoghue

The two things that will defeat a lot of young actors are fear of failure and lack of preparation. With acting, I…

— Tom Selleck

I ended up doing three very complicated off-Broadway plays that, in certain ways, were not successes in that they were received in…

— Jonathan Groff

You give, actually, what you have in your inner world through your emotion and feeling. That's what you can give; it's not…

— Charlotte Rampling

As far as I'm concerned all theatre is physical. As Aristotle says, you know, theatre is an act and an action, and…

— Simon McBurney

Chefs don't have a union. We don't have a Screen Actor's Guild.

— Roy Choi

My father was just 9 when he started as a child actor in 'Afsana.'

— Javed Jaffrey

Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

It felt like a pretentious fantasy to say, 'I want to be an actress.'

— Pom Klementieff

The acting is better when you know your material is being judged.

— Bob Newhart

Acting is the art of being and existing, and not being fake.

— Omari Hardwick

I grew up listening to music and going to the theatre.

— Cate Blanchett

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

— Edward Albee

In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot.

— David Cassidy

As an actor, you keep learning. There's no end to it.

— Sridevi

If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond.

— Gaby Hoffmann

Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor.

— Sara Paxton

I just want to keep working with great actors and try to be good at what I do.

— Jessie Buckley

Actually, I wanted to be an actor when I was two years old.

— Keith David

My job is to be sincere to my script. I am passionate about what I do.

— Vijay Sethupathi

My goal beyond being an actor, is just being an open channel.

— Ezra Miller