Actors Quote by Emily Mortimer

I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.

— David Nicholls

For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching…

— Winona Ryder

Sometimes I feel I have no idea what I'm doing as an actor. I just did a tape for the TV remake of 'The…

— Johnny Simmons

For me, it was always that one extra job that you do to survive in the industry. I also realised that I was not…

— Abhishek Banerjee

I loved acting when I was doing it, but getting the jobs I didn't understand because I'd never had to do it. That was…

— Mariel Hemingway

I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward.

— Judy Holliday

I had to learn how to become a real actor, I had to suffer and be rejected and face that 100 times just like…

— Donnie Wahlberg

I was very frustrated, in a physical sense, by people seeing me in a way that I wasn't. And I was beginning to find…

— Rufus Sewell

I did roles that I hated, and there were roles that were detrimental to my acting ability. There were roles that I was always…

— Taika Waititi

After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.

— Maureen O'Hara

I have a career I am proud of as a child actor. I'm not running away from it or embarassed with anything I did.

— Ricky Schroder

The big challenge for me was just trying to ignore the embarrassment of being an actor. It's a pretty embarrassing thing to do. You've…

— Chris Pratt