Actor Quotes

When I first set out to do it, I wanted to be a working actor, and now it seems like it's superseded even my dreams.

~ Michael Pena

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

~ Hugh Grant

When I realized that if I was an actor, I could be any character I wanted instead of just one particular, I was like, 'Wow, that's cool.'

~ Orlando Bloom

When I was a very young actor, I cruised around in a pretty cool vehicle called the Starship Enterprise.

~ George Takei

If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool.

~ Ben Nicholas

I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

~ Zachary Quinto

My becoming an actor wasn't planned. My interest always lied in sports such as football, martial arts, gymnastics and dance.

~ Tiger Shroff

It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.

~ Bill Nighy

If you're an English actor, and you're asked to do an episode - especially the Christmas episode - of 'Downton Abbey,' you can't turn it down. It's like, 'Of course!'

~ Janet Montgomery

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.

~ James D'arcy

Well, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn't necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.

~ Jenna Fischer

Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are different.

~ Blake Lively

My goal was never to be famous, but to be a consistently working actor.

~ Erin Cummings

As an actor and as a performer, I've felt that the education system has really helped me in a lot of ways... there was always a teacher or a professor along the way that kept pushing me to the next stage.

~ Jimmy Smits

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.

~ Richard Dreyfuss

My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby.

~ John Abraham

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

~ Vincent D'onofrio

No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.

~ Mahesh Babu

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'

~ Johnny Depp

The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.

~ Yash Chopra

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.

~ Kieran Culkin

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

~ Nicolas Cage

I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor.

~ Tom Berenger

I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form.

~ Geoffrey Rush

Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she's a versatile actor.

~ Brad Pitt

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

~ Christopher Walken

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

~ Laura Linney

It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything.

~ Shari Sebbens

The thing I love about being an actor is the ability to travel and experience new cultures.

~ Paul Wesley

Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

~ Viggo Mortensen

I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.

~ Lake Bell

I like Ryan Gosling as an actor. I watch all of his movies, and he's Canadian and I just like his swag. I read his interviews and I'm a big fan of his.

~ Drake

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

~ Forest Whitaker

I'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an actor.

~ Eddie Murphy

So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.

~ Henry Rollins

Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I'd done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.

~ Jeff Bridges

I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man.

~ Henry Fonda

As an actor, I trust my ear.

~ Christopher Guest

It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

~ Sam Shepard

I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.

~ Eddie Izzard