Actor Quotes
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Being an actor, I never think I'm going to get the part. It's always a thrill when things go the way you hope they will.
Zoe Perry
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An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.
Indira Varma
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I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do.
Taylor Sheridan
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As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'
Maggie Siff
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It's funny how being an actor forces you to do things or go places that you wouldn't ordinarily.
Natalie Dormer
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My path was to be an actor and it’s been very good to me in life. It’s broadened my horizons and given me a lot of gifts.
Nicole Kidman
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For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career as a musician. It was just something that I did on my own time, just for me. I had written a lot of songs, but I don't really record a lot of music because, for me, it's the same way as a poet: I write to get things out. It's sort of cathartic.
Steve Kazee
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My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.
Rainn Wilson
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To have a part that is written for you certainly helps an actor.
A. J. Bowen
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I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter.
Shailene Woodley
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I think selfishly, as an actor, we always want to do more.
Mahershala Ali
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I worked as an actor for many years. Then I segued to some non-fiction writing.
Cameron Dokey
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After becoming an actor, it's the privacy that I miss.
Rakul Preet Singh
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Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.
Anne Hathaway
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I was born in Mumbai, but I grew up in England, and then my adulthood has been in the States. I'm an American stuffed with an English person with an Indian person inside. I feel like those things kind of inform me in some way, which I think helps me as an actor.
Aasif Mandvi
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I've always looked to that play, 'Virginia Woolf,' for a cue - as far as any cue I might need as an actor for inspiration or as a writer.
Alice Ripley
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I'm an actor, so I like costumes.
Parker Posey
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As a child, I always wanted to be an actor. But as I grew older, the acting dream kind of faded away, and I took to studying a lot. A few years later, a relative of mine who really wanted me to try my hand at acting sent my photographs to a few production houses, and like they say, the rest is history.
Yami Gautam
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An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role.
Eleanor Robson Belmont
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Yes, you want to do studio movies, but I also want to grow as an actor, and an actress like me is not going to get roles where you grow and evolve in a studio film. It's just not gonna happen.
Octavia Spencer
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I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.
Jack Nicholson
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When I came to Mumbai from Dubai to become an actor, I used to entertain people at parties by showing some card tricks.
Rithvik Dhanjani
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The actor’s realm is that of the fleeting.
Albert Camus
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My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.
Micky Dolenz The Monkees