Acting Quote by Geena Davis

“We’re actors in our own lives, pretending to be who we want people to think we are”

— Simone Elkeles

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

— Bette Davis

There seem to be two sorts of actors. Some people play themselves marvellously, and others, like me, rather like to become someone else.

— Eileen Atkins

Actors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and dislikes of people their entire life,…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I do feel that I myself wouldn't have had, in my life looking back, the courage to go out and say, 'I'm a good…

— Vicky Krieps

One of the reasons that I needed to become an actor was that I didn't have any self-confidence.

— David Jason

I always knew that the only thing I wanted to do was act, but it took me a long time to say it out…

— Jessica Raine

Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, 'No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you…

— Bradley Whitford

I wasn't one of those people who went to see a play and said, 'I want to be an actor.' I fell into it.

— Henry Czerny

I had a very hard time accepting myself as a character actress, because I wanted to be glamorous and a leading lady like everybody…

— Beth Grant

I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange.…

— Joan Allen

There was a period when I really had to ask myself, 'What does acting mean to me?' I'm not someone who's content being famous,…

— Lecy Goranson