Actors Quotes

5276 Actors quotes by 2563 unique authors

An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a craftsman,… — Alec Guinness
Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These… — Matt Damon
If you really want to become an actor, but only providing that acting doesn't interfere with your golf game, political ambitions and your life, you… — Michael Caine
As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told. — Rita Webb
I was trained to be an actor, not a star. — Gene Hackman
There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors. — Sidney Lumet
Actors are basically drag queens. People will tell you they act because they want to heal mankind or, you know, explore the nature of the… — Colin Firth
Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple… — Arthur Miller
I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted. — Philip Seymour Hoffman
The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We… — C. Wright Mills
When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get… — Rod Taylor
The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I trained for three years at drama school to be an actor - not a celebrity. — Orlando Bloom
Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy… — Dougray Scott
Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass. — Jim Carrey
It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move. — Tony Curtis
So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean? — Faye Dunaway
It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality. And even more difficult… — Ian Mckellen
The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially… — Wystan Hugh Auden
They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness. — William Hazlitt
The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a… — Oscar Wilde
Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing… — Samuel Johnson
Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears… — William Shakespeare
She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him… — Marguerite Duras
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the… — Aldous Huxley

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