Actors Quote by Dennis Hopper

One of the first speaking roles I had was in a film called 'Svengali', with Peter O'Toole and Elizabeth Ashley. I was a waiter,…

— Tobin Bell

I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

The first long chapter of my career was almost entirely theater so that, by the time I was 30, 35, I sort of knew…

— John Lithgow

I had a real feeling of being fated to be an actor and do my work, and I remember so much speaking up in…

— Zoe Kazan

When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I…

— Judy Davis

Initially I started in theatre as a Shakespearean actress before film and television. I've always been an artistic child growing up and I knew…

— Lorraine Toussaint

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

— Rita Dove

I was acting since I was a kid, going to drama classes and being involved in every school play and musical that I could…

— Yvonne Strahovski

I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I…

— Melissa George

I was a diction, speech and method acting professor before I became an actor.

— Puneet Issar

I didn't have much ambition, but I always had an idea in the back of my mind that I wanted to act. I would…

— Michael Madsen

To be honest I don't think I was any great shakes as a theatre actor because everything I was doing was really small in…

— Robert Carlyle