Actor Quotes

• After I began to explore what an actor actually is, I studied for three years before I had the guts to go on an audition.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Years
  • Explore
  • Three

• This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Really

• An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

  

  Alec Guinness
  • Personality
  • Ego
  • Judgement

• I'm from L.A. I'm an actor. I'm a flake.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Actor

• I'm a real people person and I'm very sensitive, and I've just noticed how other actors that I've worked with, as an actor, take direction from people.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • People
  • Real
  • Person

• I think once you've allocated an actor to the role that the character will evolve slightly.

  

  Nathalie Emmanuel
  • Character
  • Actor
  • Allocated

• I definitely wanted to be an actor. I didn't want to be on TV, I didn't want to be famous, I didn't want to be anyone in particular; I just wanted to do it. I see young people now who look at magazines, or American Idol and their goal is to have that lifestyle - to have good handbags, or go out with cute guys from shows, or whatever. But I definitely wanted to be an actor.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • People
  • Good
  • American

• I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.

  

  Evan Peters
  • Actor
  • Working
  • Reader

• And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.

  

  Rene Auberjonois
  • Father
  • Process
  • Just

• I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Experience
  • Process
  • Camera

• 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
  • Inspiration
  • Writer
  • Virginia Woolf

• I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.

  

  Don Johnson
  • Feelings
  • Actor
  • I Don't

• I'm an actor, and everything about me - the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world - has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.

  

  Al Pacino
  • World
  • Actor
  • Characters

• I will no longer be an actor to hire, I have a passion for producing and making films.

  

  Ryan Phillippe
  • Actor
  • Films
  • Hire

• Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Character
  • Actor
  • Plays

• I think that, as an actor, you have to break out eventually, and if you do it properly, it can be something that's positive.

  

  Aly Michalka Aly & AJ
  • Positive
  • Actor
  • Break Out

• I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Actor
  • First Class

• Be in the moment as an actor and as a human being, and you're going to be happy.

  

  Mark Webber Pulp
  • Happy
  • Actor
  • Human being

• Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

  

  Alec Guinness
  • Life
  • Small
  • Play

• I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

  

  Alec Guinness
  • Actor
  • Pretend

• Directing is more comfortable for me because, as an actor, there's always something inherently false. Because I'm not that person.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Person
  • Comfortable
  • False

• I'm an actor, because I get to see other sides of life and I get to be other people and it excites me so much.

  

  Callum Blue
  • People
  • Life
  • Excitement

• There's nothing more terrifying than an actor who comes with an idea.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Idea
  • Actor
  • Nothing

• I would say that the woman's ability to multi-task and to be maternal in instinct, it fosters a different approach to the character that makes sense as an actor.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Different
  • Character
  • Woman

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