Actors Quotes · Page 98

There are a lot of actors - I'm probably one - who are most at home when they're on stage.

— Ian Mckellen

I've never considered myself a comedian. I'm a comedic actor.

— Samuel L. Jackson

I don't know if child actors are necessarily more screwed up than most people.

— Rider Strong

Most of my friends aren't actors - and not one of them is overly impressed with what I do.

— Jeremy London

That's what separates actors - I'll take any risk for a performance.

— Emory Cohen

My goal as an actor is to grow and try different things.

— Dwayne Johnson

I was obsessed with Jim Carrey growing up. It's why I wanted to become an actor.

— Sebastian Stan

Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents.

— Jean Kerr

The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.

— Rob Paulsen

I was a commercial artist when I left school, but luckily I became an actor. I've painted for many, many years. Now…

— Pierce Brosnan

I think as actors, or anybody that is in public life, you are constantly dependent on validation from other people.

— Kunal Kapoor

How strange or odd some'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on.

— William Shakespeare

Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell…

— Clarke Peters

All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.

— Tom Wilkinson

I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements…

— Sam Neill

I've been wanting to go into music ever since I can remember. I mean even before I became an actor. I just…

— River Phoenix

I had a lot of jobs, because I wanted to be an actor, and I had this bad habit of wanting to…

— Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

We just, you know, we're just sort of doing it like Bewitched, because we just think that the character of Kenny is…

— Debra Messing

I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should…

— Donald E. Westlake

Once we were on the set, we each did different kinds of work. I was doing more the technical stuff, the framing…

— Vincent Paronnaud

The hardest thing for me to do, and the best thing I've done and learned as an actor is to sacrifice being…

— Jonah Hill

When I used to do tours, I'd be anxious and nervous on the plane returning to New York. I now realize the…

— Scott Bakula

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the…

— Ralph Fiennes

So often gay characters, particular those portrayed in an era where gayness was something of a taboo and a statement about 'who…

— Freddie Fox

People do not necessarily reveal what is going on - only bad actors do.

— Martin Landau

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

— Tracey Ullman

I look for things that are going to challenge me as an actor.

— Devon Sawa

I think theater has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be.

— Mark Hamill

There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the…

— Toni Collette

Actors are terrible at overthinking things before they turn up to work, and they decide on a way they're going to do…

— Taika Waititi

I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every…

— Austin Peck

Whenever I mention Greg Kinnear's name to anyone, they always say, "Oh, love him!" He's a really terrific actor, and very funny.

— Miranda Otto

I felt like I had to prove myself, but I feel that you have to do that anyway, as an actor. You're…

— Giles Matthey

I'm practically an actor. Even when you do an interview, it's like you're performing a little bit, so yeah, I'm enjoying it,…

— Stan Lee

When I was young I used to sit in the cinema thinking wouldn't it be great if you could have a film…

— Mike Leigh

There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year.

— Steve Guttenberg

It's a nice challenge to escape your reality. I think that's why actors do what we do. We like to play other…

— Stella Maeve

Actors are supposed to be these runaways that get in a covered wagon filled with hats and tambourines and go from town…

— John Cho

I hadn't intended to end up there. I meant to be a serious actor with a beard who wore a lot of…

— Stephen Colbert

As an actor, I think every moment in your life is giving you a new set of tools. You’re constantly absorbing new…

— Charlie Day