Actor Quotes
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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
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I have no idea what 'method actor' means.
Viggo Mortensen
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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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After becoming an actor, it's the privacy that I miss.
Rakul Preet Singh
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It was never a plan to be an actor.
Mads Mikkelsen
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I think it's very rare, as an actor, that you get to a script, or an idea of a script, and you go, "Oh, I just have to do that!" It fell into place very quickly.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
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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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When I was I kid, there were so many different things that I wanted to be. As an actor, I get a chance to be all of those things, at least for a couple of days, which is fun.
Navid Negahban
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It's crazy, it's different. It's what I wanted, but it's different. It's not exactly what I wanted, you know what I mean? If you become an actor you want to be a successful actor; but with success comes a lot of things. Some of it's great! It's great to be able to pay your rent from the work that you do.
Donald Faison
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I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.
Harrison Ford
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My goal has been to be a great character actor.
Nolan Gerard Funk
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Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.
Jude Law
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The nudity is down to the individual actor or actress. If they feel comfortable and it's done in a way that they feel comfortable doing, then who am I to say anything?
Nathalie Emmanuel
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I'm a full-contact actor, meaning that I love to act in my toes and in my fingers, and I just try to keep it surprising.
Eric Stonestreet
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Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?
Abbi Jacobson
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Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.
Catherine Deneuve
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I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'
T. J. Thyne
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Look, I'm an actor, I don't profess to understand much of anything.
Eric Stoltz
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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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My ambition is to get better as an actor.
Ian Mckellen
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I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.
Taron Egerton
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You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by you as an actor.
Harold Perrineau
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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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I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
D. H. Lawrence