I was born an ordinary actor. I will die an ordinary actor. But I've persisted.
Constantin StanislavskiI think, at the end of the day, if youre a good actor, then youre a good actor.
John Benjamin HickeyI've always been an actor. That's my job I can be anything you want me to be.
Sarah Jessica ParkerWe all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.
Benedict CumberbatchMy parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
Quentin TarantinoTengo 25 años, 70 centavos en el bolsillo y una sola ambición: llegar a ser actor.
Osvaldo TerranovaIf life is a performance, and I am not an actor, am I supposed to lie down and die?
Juliana HatfieldA conservative frame of mind is very limiting for an actor, and a human being, too.
Vanessa RedgraveI think there needs to be more care taken for the actor. You know, we are not props!
Anika Noni RosePeople don't know and they shouldn't know that you work incredibly hard as an actor.
James GandolfiniYou know, Tupac is very near and dear to my heart. He started my career as an actor.
Michael K. WilliamsEvery scene is a love scene. The actor should ask the question: 'Where is the love?'
Michael ShurtleffI was trained as a dramatic actor. Im really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.
Spencer BoldmanLike a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.
William ShakespeareI became an actor because I didn't know what else to do. Academically, I wasn't good.
Anthony HopkinsI do this profession. I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people.
Gerard DepardieuAs an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time.
Jake GyllenhaalUta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor.
Jake GyllenhaalI was never an actor. I had done one or two random projects in my advertising career.
Steve DildarianI think always as an actor. I go in knowing how I'm going to play it. That's about it.
Adewale Akinnuoye-AgbajeIf you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.
Annette BeningI'll watch a Keanu Reeves movie and I'll go, 'Wow, he's really not a very good actor!'
Ashton KutcherI decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.
Dustin HoffmanI suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.
Jack NicholsonIt's a very, very rare moment when another actor hurts you. I mean, that's not normal.
Katee SackhoffThe actor needs to find out what the basic fight is in every character in every scene.
Michael ShurtleffIt's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.
Nicole SullivanI don't enjoy being told what to do, I'm not that kind of actor, I'm a thinking actor.
Priyanka ChopraYou should be able to tell your child, "This is an actor. And she's older than Mommy!"
Rosie O'DonnellAs an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.
Russell HornsbyI will no longer be an actor to hire, I have a passion for producing and making films.
Ryan PhillippeI'm probably the most pessimistic actor I know. I'm always sure I'll never work again.
William SandersonUn buen actor es un hombre que ofrece tan real la mentira que todos participan de ella
Vittorio GassmanI'll do more than the average actor, but I'm smart enough to know why stunt guys exist.
Bruce CampbellWithout chiropractic care, I couldn't have existed with my work as a TV and film actor.
Clint WalkerI thought I was an actor playing a wizard. But really, I was a wizard playing an actor.
Daniel RadcliffeAs an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.
Douglas BoothWhat I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words.
Gregory HarrisonI like to think of myself as a character actor, though there's some redundancy in that.
Jeff BridgesYou're literally being an actor - you're pretending - and that's not what I like to do.
Kristen StewartIt's an enormous relief to go to work and be an actor and not be worried about writing.
Lin-Manuel MirandaI'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road.
Matthew William GoodeThere's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.
Richard GereI like being meticulous and it's quite difficult as an actor to have that much control.
Robert PattinsonI feel lucky to be an actor because you always learn something from each part you play.
Rosemarie DeWittI didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.
Sydney PollackAs an actor, it's much, much easier to be really nasty to someone that you really like.
Tom HiddlestonIt is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic.
Winston ChurchillAs an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.
Alicia VikanderThe most brilliant actor that I have ever worked with. I've liked others very much more.
Anna NeagleI had always planned to be an actor, and the music was just in my DNA, it's always been.
Creed BrattonWhat I try to do is give each actor an environment in which they can do their best work.
Curtis HansonI think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
Damian LewisIt'd be hard to be a lead actor if I didn't have lips. Those are tough to graft back on.
David WaltonI think any good singer needs to be a good actor. You have to be able to tell the story.
Erica SchroederThere's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.
Kevin SpaceyAs an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.
Mia WasikowskaThat's one of the fun parts of becoming an actor: You can become whoever you want to be.
Michael B. JordanYou have to love, without judgment, every actor that you're working with to make beauty.
Nicole KidmanEach actor is a very different person, and each one has to be directed very differently.
Pedro AlmodovarAs an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.
Ray StevensonAnd there are lots of moments when I think, "What am I doing as an actor? I can't act!'
Rob James-CollierEach action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.
Sarah BernhardtThe last thing you want is an injured actor. That, or having to use a stuntman too much.
Wade EastwoodLo bonito de la profesión de actor es que no existe ningún orden en el tiempo o la edad.
Michel de MontaigneI'll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working.
Ashton KutcherWhat you always try to do, as an actor, is find the thing that's universal in the person.
Finn WittrockThe concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.
Francois DelsarteEven as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.
Jake GyllenhaalMost actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.
Jodie FosterI didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor.
Jodie FosterKeanu Reeves is, like, the worst actor I've ever seen. I can't believe he's a movie star.
Juliana HatfieldI didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.
Kathleen QuinlanAs an actor, I've been drawn to those characters that are further away from who I may be.
Kurt SutterYou are what you know, as an actor, so you gotta try to know as much as you possibly can.
Liev SchreiberAny actor will tell you that you go where the work is, especially when you have children.
Nicole Ari ParkerI think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
Patricia ClarksonI can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.
Roddy McDowallSeriously, I would go in a second. I'd be the first actor in space and I'd love to do it.
Tom CruiseGenerally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power.
William MapotherI never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.
Adelaide ClemensI don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.
Amitabh BachchanRomeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.
Anthony AndersonI kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor.
Carla GuginoYou have to trust your instincts. There is a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it.
Clint EastwoodA ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts.
George Jean NathanIt's always important for me as an actor to reflect human behavior for a sense of reality.
John SpencerYou never stop learning your craft. That's the key to success within yourself as an actor.
Julianna MarguliesIf I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.
Liev SchreiberI'm a self-confessed genre nerd. I'm a very serious actor, but a genre nerd, all the same.
Penelope MitchellIf I want to keep working as an actor, I'm going to become a comedian who does fart jokes.
Peter SarsgaardMy opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.
Robert VaughnIf it sounds good as you say it, likely as not it'll sound good when an actor's saying it.
Rod SerlingI never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.
Rose McGowanI've always wanted to be an actor that explores different genres and different characters.
Rose McIverIm an actor, full stop. Not an Arab actor. Not an actor of Algerian origin. Just an actor.
Tahar RahimI consider myself a method singer, not a method actor. I applied method acting to singing.
Tony BennettAs an actor, people are always criticizing you so it just made me fall in love with myself.
Andrea HallI don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.
Ben StillerI was 3 when I told my mom that I knew what my dharma was and that I wanted to be an actor.
Brie LarsonI always wanted to be an actor. I had the arrogance to believe I couldn't be anything else.
Daniel CraigVery often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
Elia KazanI don't understand the actor that chooses to play the same role in everything all the time.
Guy PearceThe biggest compliment I think an actor can get is I can't imagine anyone else in the role.
Jeff DanielsThe writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.
Joanna KernsI am a filmmaker fanatic. I have never been star-struck by an actor once in my entire life.
Jonah HillThe reason my films work is because every actor on set is very secure. They're able to fly.
Mike LeighThere is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor.
Natalie PortmanI think once you've allocated an actor to the role that the character will evolve slightly.
Nathalie EmmanuelIn between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.
Sean PennMy working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.
Yael StoneIt's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.
Aaron TveitI don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.
Baz LuhrmannIt's so great as an actor to get the opportunity to do something that's incredibly truthful.
Charlize TheronI'm not a good actor, I can play myself and a much gayer version of myself. That's my range.
Daniel ToshOne of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.
Dustin Hoffman'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.
George ClooneyI don't think a Hollywood actor is safe from acting in the rain: it all depends on the film.
Isabella RosselliniI'm a grinding actor. That's how I've always viewed myself. You go from one job to the next.
Jake M. JohnsonBecause I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.
Jeremy IronsI love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.
John LeguizamoWhat is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?
Joyce CaryI didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.
Kevin BaconI think that's part of the fun of being an actor - you get to not be normal all of the time.
Lucas NeffThe relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime
Marlene DietrichComedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
Michael CaineDon't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances.
Sanford MeisnerI want to be a man's man-not a kid actor or a glitzy pop star but a no-bullshit leading man.
Scott EastwoodMy mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.
Sergio LeoneA great actor is simply just seeing him or herself, and reacting to what exists around them.
Shailene WoodleyI love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my days off.
T. J. ThyneThats the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.
Bruce BoxleitnerThe main fun of being an actor is that you get to bounce around to a lot of different worlds.
Gillian JacobsI believe you can't be an actor if you haven't had the feeling of being abandoned as a child.
Isabelle AdjaniI'm a character actor, so as a character actor, I'm always looking for something interesting.
John NobleI was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.
Joseph BarberaAs the actor, you just have to believe in what your character is doing in order to play them.
Kristen BellI'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor. Votes: 4 Matthew Vaughn
I don't like improv at all. It terrifies me. I like to know exactly what I'm going to say. Being surprised does make me a better actor. Anytime I'm afraid of something that makes me rise to the occasion, it scares me, but it's what makes great actors - being in the moment. Votes: 1 Jesse Tyler Ferguson
To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon. Votes: 2 Giancarlo Esposito
I have a career I am proud of as a child actor. I'm not running away from it or embarassed with anything I did. Votes: 1 Ricky Schroder
My favorite actor is Steve McQueen, and he did his own stunts. Votes: 5 Christian Kane
Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore. Votes: 3 Val Guest
I want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor. Votes: 4 Bradley Cooper
There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic. Votes: 2 Nicolas Cage
The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?' Votes: 2 Michael Caine