Actor Quotes
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When I was 16 and wanted to be an actor, people told me to go work at the supermarket.
Steve Valentine
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People keep trying to make me a movie star but they just don't understand. I'm not a movie star, I'm an actor.
Ryan Phillippe
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The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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I sang "Patience" by Guns N' Roses for my sixth grade talent show and I wanted to be an actor when I was younger. It was all very, very theatrical. It was only later that I separated the two and thought of myself as quite the opposite of an actor.
Ariel Pink
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It wasn't a mission to be a rock star. It wasn't a mission of mine to even be a movie star. I just intended to be a good actor.
Don Johnson
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You know, I always say musicians, they can do it on their own. They can practice their violin on their own. A painter can paint by himself. A writer can write by himself. But an actor needs a group, and the hardest thing about expanding your ability and your craft is to have a group to do it with that is of a caliber where you can grow even more.
Anne Archer
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As an actor, I feel there isn't much to explore on TV. So, if I get better work as a host, why wouldn't I do it?
Rithvik Dhanjani
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A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.
Ivan Reitman
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Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
Bela Lugosi
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My goal beyond being an actor, is just being an open channel.
Ezra Miller
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I'm a stand-up comedian-turned-actor-turned-vampire at night.
Vir Das
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It's a very important skill set for an actor to be able to bring the humor into any moment, whether you're doing drama or comedy.
Nathaniel Buzolic
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To be a good actor you really have to want to act first.
Anthony Charles Edwards
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I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
Ben Affleck
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I want to work as hard as I can. But I also want six kids! It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything.
Shari Sebbens
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When I became an actor, I knew that there were only two ways of going about it - either I become an actor who has expectations, or the reverse of it.
Vicky Kaushal
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When an actor … is lying on the ground, it is a whole nation lying down. And when he rises slowly up, you see the play of his muscles. After that he comes and goes, lifts things, throws them. He’s self-reliant man, and there’s his rapport with Promethean art.
Etienne Decroux
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
Al Pacino
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I think there are definite parallels between sport and art. There's a real sense of sacrifice. There's a real sense of dedication that is needed in sport that I think you can attribute to art. I think so much of it is about bravery and courage, being an actor.
Matt Smith Poison
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My mother was an extraordinary theater actor in Canada, and when I would finish school, I would go to the theater. I would do my homework, we would have dinner there, she would do her play, and then me and my sister would go home. So I grew up in it that way.
Kiefer Sutherland
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I always have to come back to shows to take out the improvements actors have put in. Laughs are addictive, and sometimes they're good laughs, and sometimes they're bad laughs.
Scott Ellis
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There isn't a switch that I turn on. I'm an actor. This is what I do.
Anthony Anderson
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
Al Pacino
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Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones