Actor Quotes

In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and funny voices.

~ Jon Pertwee

In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to.

~ Stephen Lang

I probably became an actor because of my vivid imagination, and doing voice-over really sort of takes me back to that.

~ Eric Stonestreet

As an actor, whether I'm playing Othello on stage or David Estes on 'Homeland,' that ability to give into your imagination is something that I enjoy.

~ David Harewood

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

~ Jacki Weaver

Richard Donner's friendship and guidance showed me that there's more to life than being an actor.

~ Jeff Cohen

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

~ Andy Serkis

I was 3 when I told my mom that I knew what my dharma was and that I wanted to be an actor.

~ Brie Larson

When I was seven, I had been very vocal about wanting to be an actor. And my mom decided that we would try it out for a couple weeks and come to L.A. from Sacramento.

~ Brie Larson

My father has been an actor since 1964. Things were tight a lot of the times, financially. It wasn't like a big romantic adventure.

~ Chris Pine

One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.

~ Joel Edgerton

I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think.

~ Lauren Bacall

My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.

~ Jennifer Aniston

My dad was very much a struggling actor and spent more of his life as a postman, as a member of a tarmac firm, as a van driver.

~ Kate Winslet