Actor Quotes

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One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months. — James Purefoy
I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be an actor and… — James Purefoy
As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face. — James Purefoy
I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in. — James Purefoy
I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew… — Jamie Bell
As far back as I can remember, these are the first movies, the Universal horror movies where I knew the title of the film and… — Benicio Del Toro
I rarely meet other young actors. — Mia Wasikowska
When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest. — Lauren Graham
Being an actor, the less people know about my personal life, the more open-minded they can be about each role I play. — Sean Hayes
You know, my point in being an actor is to get people to believe that this is not about me, but something else. — Jim Caviezel
My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables. — Rainn Wilson
To a certain extent I suppose all actors are big kids. — Dominic Cooper
Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living. — Dominic Cooper
One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor. — Dominic Cooper
We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor. — Dominic Cooper
One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected. — Freida Pinto
If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily. — Kristin Scott Thomas
Every actor dreams of getting a big break, a big opportunity. — Liam McIntyre
Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be an actor. — Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional actor, and that, actually, I make a living out of… — Robert Carlyle
Robert DeNiro, who may be the greatest living actor, usually acts in a way which is very stone-faced, like Steve McQueen. — Michel Hazanavicius
My problem with being an actor was that I was far too shy to actually do it. — Bruce Robinson
My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all - that is… — Bryan Cranston
My goal has always been to be a working actor. — Bryan Cranston
Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge. — Giancarlo Esposito

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