Academy Quote by David Warner

Actors in general have become very spoiled in the roles they choose these days. When I first started in this profession - about a…

— Brian Cox

When I came into the acting profession, it was quite hierarchical. You didn't sit at the same table as the leading actor. Sir Laurence…

— Helen Mirren

As a young actor, I was advised to bide my time. Back then, there weren't good roles for someone like me. There were handsome…

— Jim Broadbent

I wasn't trained as an actor at all. I had studied painting in America and had no clue about acting when I came back.

— Deepti Naval

Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that.

— David Carradine

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

— Marcello Mastroianni

Look, I certainly couldn't say that my unusual upbringing didn't lend itself to becoming an actor - of course it did. People want to…

— Freddie Fox

I had no idea how one became an actor. I didn't know things such as drama schools existed. It all just sort of happened…

— David Thewlis

Actors are supposed to take versatile roles.

— Sargun Mehta

The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explore and, in general, they…

— Victoria Clark

It is so rare as an actor to be allowed the chance to revisit a role and to go back to a character that…

— Tom Hiddleston

I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. A friend of my mom's was a casting…

— Ben Affleck