Actor Quotes

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My job as an actor has inspired generations of children to become doctors. My job as a writer has opened up the minds of millions.… — Zach Braff
If I wasn't an actor? Hmm, I'd probably be a serial killer. I'm just so damn likeable, no one would ever suspect me. — Zach Braff
Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell. — Keith Hernandez
The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight. — John Charles Polanyi
Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia. — Vittorio Gassman
There is always one person on the set who has a lot of anxiety, an actor who is really intense and has to stay in… — Maria Bello
Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter. — Ivor Novello
If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to… — Jason Statham
Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages. — Cameron Diaz
As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience… — Richard Foreman
A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting… — Jay McInerney
I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama… — Hugh Dancy
When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history… — Mariel Hemingway
It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression… — Frances McDormand
I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first. — Griffin Dunne
You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they? They just get on those shows, and they talk away. There's nothing… — Hillary Clinton
Before I was an actor I was an apprentice jockey, and now I'm out there racing against boys, sort of the spokesperson for people over… — Davy Jones
Remember that you are in actor in a play of such a kind that the author chooses...For this is your duty, to act well the… — Epictetus
I was a serious method actor until I visited this site. — Robin Williams
This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience,… — Carl Jung

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