Actor Quotes · Page 87

Broadway performers are the best-trained people on the planet.

— Frankie Grande

The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.

— Bette Davis

As an actress, I had a very short career - it lasted 12 years.

— Mumtaz

'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

— Andrew Scott

I feel safe that theater will always serve women in different ages.

— Ruth Wilson

I love the American musical for the simplicity of emotion that gets expressed.

— Neil Patrick Harris

When I played 'Annie' in the seventh grade, I knew from then on that I wanted to be an actor.

— Katie Leclerc

... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.

— Sarah Bernhardt

Any play that's making a point is less interesting than something that stays with you and suggests something further.

— Simon McBurney

I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like…

— Phylicia Rashad

If I didn't love acting, I would love to work at Google... if they'd have me. They have the coolest perks a…

— Tiya Sircar

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes…

— Lewis Black

The director Steve McQueen has found a way to constantly include the element of surprise in his work, both as an artist…

— Elvis Mitchell

I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've…

— Jodie Foster

Whatever I do, no matter it's for television, web or the big screen - it should satisfy me as an actor.

— Gautam Rode

I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in…

— Simone Signoret

Sometime in my second year at Brown [University], I took an acting class. And the lightbulb went off for me. I fell…

— Tracee Ellis Ross

I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look.…

— Kevin Costner

My mum tells me, 'I always thought you were going to be an actor because you always wanted to dress up as…

— Harris Dickinson

Star Wars was one of the first movies that ever made me want to be an actor. Hanging with Wookies, getting to…

— Donald Faison

People often say that you should never work with child actors. I think that's all wrong. Children have not had the imagination…

— Nicolas Cage

Those people that have hardened to rejection or hardened to life in general, it's pretty hard to feel them. You know, to…

— Emma Stone

You know, you're just sitting with him [Chevy Chase], then you're doing a scene with him and acting, and all of a…

— Danny Pudi

There's kind of no rhyme or reason to what is appealing to any given actor. It just is, or it isn't. It's…

— Katherine Waterston

Acting has always been special and will continue to remain so.

— Ayesha Takia

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

— Beatrice Wood

The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.

— Stella Adler

We try to cast very real kids who have raw talent.

— Dan Schneider

I would love for musicals to come back on the screen.

— Jean Louisa Kelly

I knew that I was going to become an actor since I was 5.

— Mark Ivanir

At the end of the day, you are an actor and the medium doesn't matter.

— Prachi Desai

My dream job would be starring in a lead role on a Broadway musical.

— Shanice Williams

An actor has no more right to be temperamental than a bank clerk.

— Fredric March

When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.

— Stephen Leacock

An actor has to evaluate his own abilities and be honest with himself.

— Paul Newman

Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.

— Sylvester Stallone

I'm very interested in directing actors - many directors direct cameras.

— Richard Marquand

When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.

— Taylor Swift

When I believe in an actor, I believe there is something in that actor.

— Ram Gopal Varma

I would rather be called a character actor than a star.

— Louis Jourdan