Actor Quotes
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From the time I was a child, I wanted to be an actor.
Harshvardhan Rane
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The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.
Steven Berkoff
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...as an actor there`s nothing better than a great moody moment to play with nothing to say. It`s so much easier to do because you can really get inside your head.
Ewan McGregor
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That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.
Morgan Freeman
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One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.
Dustin Hoffman
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If I don't have a script I adore, I do one I like. If I don't have one I like, I do one that has an actor I like or that presents some technical challenge.
Sidney Lumet
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I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.
Catherine Deneuve
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I wanted to be an actor, but only because I wanted to be everything, and that was the only way I could be a marine biologist as well.
Essie Davis
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I went to LA because my parents were there and somebody asked me if I wanted to be in a movie. It was easy, it wasn't easy to do, but I fell into it. I made a living as an actor for a long time, but I didn't think of myself as an actor, I thought I was a writer.
Hampton Fancher
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One of the best jobs for a mom is being an actor. I’m very fortunate that I work a lot, but there’s also a lot of down time. I’ve been really involved in my children’s education, doing stuff with their school.
Judith Hoag
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A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor.
Eric Bentley
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An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.
Marilyn Monroe
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It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.
Nicole Kidman
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For some time, I thought being a producer would be a more fulfilling career than being an actor. But then I went to a conference in Cannes with 300 other producers, all desperately chasing finance for their projects... and realized being an actor wasn't so bad after all!
William Kircher
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Being an actor is pretty much like being in the circus.
Stephen Dorff
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To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor.
Artie Lange
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Sometimes in the life of an actor you're not getting offered any jobs that speak to you. The trouble with acting is that you're only as good as your opportunities.
Ethan Hawke
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Many an actor does the stage more ham than good.
Evan Esar
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I've always like sort of, as an actor, I'm drawn to exploring how we are as human beings in given situations and how we act and how we react and what makes us tick.
Ewan McGregor
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It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.
Cate Blanchett
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I think it's just growth, and development, timing. I've been fortunate to be around for a long time. Allowed me to get better as an actor. Allowed me to play better roles.
Morris Chestnut
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What I normally do as an actor in playing different roles, I just have to do in a span of three seconds sometimes, so I think I'm lucky that I've been doing it so long that I can do it rather quickly.
Evan Rachel Wood
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I couldn't have ever married an actor. They have a childishness carried into an age when maturity should have set in.
Susan Kohner
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I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor.
Saoirse Ronan