Actor Quotes

5575 Actor quotes by 2698 unique authors

You can be mediocre, the way most actors are, and you can still be a top movie star, even if your movies are boring and… — Mickey Rourke
I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation and the fame… — Mickey Rourke
What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you obsess over certain… — Olivia Wilde
I grew up very comfortable in this bizarre, circus-like existence, but, as comfortable as I was, I was also aware of the struggles that actors… — Alexa Davalos
I enjoy being a character actor; I enjoy being different in everything. I want a private life; I want to be able to go to… — Alexis Arquette
Actors tell stories and we play different characters, and not all of them are healthy. — Unknown Author
For me, every opportunity is a golden opportunity, so I just need to work as hard as I can to maintain credibility and respect and… — Aneurin Barnard
Athletes and actors do really crazy things, and we do them under weird circumstances because we love what we do and because we take things… — Anika Noni Rose
I played crying people in corsets for a long time, but I went into acting to be a character actor. — Anna Maxwell Martin
What I want to be is an actor, not a star. — Edward Albert
I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the… — Arne Glimcher
I always wanted to be an actor, but I always loved design, and growing up in New Orleans there was such great style, great architecture.… — Bryan Batt
Gay actors have been playing straight since Euripides. — Bryan Batt
Actors always want to play the villain role at least once in their life. — Lee Byung-hun
I had no idea what it took to be an actor. Then all of a sudden I found myself cast in a TV drama. The… — Lee Byung-hun
I grew up watching movies and television, and one day when I was really young I told my mom I wanted to become an actor,… — Cameron Monaghan
My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor. — Carl Weathers
My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose… — Vince Vaughn
As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor. The people that… — Eric Balfour
My goal was never to be famous, but to be a consistently working actor. — Erin Cummings
If an actor is going to be an action hero, do it in a Robert Rodriguez movie, because that guy is going to make you… — Freddy Rodriguez
I would absolutely recommend for actors to start in the theater because it establishes a foundation in your craft that you can build off of. — Freddy Rodriguez
When I go to a web video meeting and look around, at least half the show runners are women. And a lot are actors-cum-writers who… — Felicia Day
When you first start, you just want to get a job. It goes from that to really deciding what kind of work you want to… — Janet Montgomery
The fact is, as actors, everything we do, bad or good, is a contribution. To me, it is a positive thing to give people as… — Unknown Author

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