Actors Quotes · Page 80

Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.

— Shia LaBeouf

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

— Michael Cudlitz

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

— Michael Jackson

I usually prefer casting actors from our own industry.

— Vignesh Shivan

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

— David Suchet

There has to be more opportunities for Asian or black actors.

— Adeel Akhtar

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

— Robert Englund

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

— Joe Regalbuto

The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl…

— Max Irons

Every actor. every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood or else you are nothing.

— Rita Hayworth

When you're an actor, you show up and it's wonderful because you're in the world of make-believe.

— Joseph McGinty Nichol

Watching live actors onstage, in something that changes night by night, real people picking up cues from each other, it concentrates you…

— Hilary Mantel

I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.

— Sam Raimi

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

— Wallace Shawn

I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and…

— Xavier Dolan

As an actor, it doesn't happen often that somebody sends you a script that is first of all that good.

— Patrick Huard

I've just done a movie - Albino Alligator - with Viggo Mortensen, who's an actor I idolize. He influenced me in a…

— Skeet Ulrich

We work in this cave, and we speak to each other sort of subconsciously and with like, weird cues and tangential brother…

— Mark Duplass

Whenever you have a character in which one of his defining qualities is his sexuality, it's always challenging, because you don't want…

— Nelsan Ellis

The most obvious ones inspiring me are probably women in political life. There are also many women in artistic endeavors, but if…

— Gloria Steinem

I accept that appearance is a big thing in this business. But being around Hollywood and having actor friends and doing music…

— Michael Bolton

Look, a lot of directors were actors, even if they were unsuccessful actors which I think is helpful. I think it's a…

— Grant Heslov

When we have a trans woman playing a trans woman, then you see, 'Oh wait, this is what trans really is. This…

— Nicole Maines

My dream was I was going to be an actor. Racism occurred to me. It dawned on me that I would not…

— Ruby Dee

The reason I'm an actor is because I'll never be able to be perfect.

— Sam Claflin

I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.

— Randy Quaid

Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.

— Amy Poehler

I would never assume to tell another actor how to do his job!

— Joseph Morgan

As a model you do play a certain role and you know as an actor you play another role.

— Gemma Ward

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

— Marcello Mastroianni

I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.

— Jack Nicholson

Every actor is great in his own right but certain actors suit certain roles.

— Rajkumar Hirani

Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.

— Marlon Brando

I don't believe that all actors should end up being directors.

— Rebecca Hall

I'd see child actors and I'd get so jealous, because they're just completely wide open.

— Joaquin Phoenix

Focus on making you the best you can be as an actor, and follow your own path.

— Craig Sheffer

Gay actors have been playing straight since Euripides.

— Bryan Batt

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

— Bela Lugosi

I'm a people's actor, not a critics' actor, and I always have been.

— Chuck Norris

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

— Adam Driver