Actor Quotes

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull. (Rod Serling)
And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in. View quote
Morgan Freeman
Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan. View quote
Uma Thurman
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything. View quote
Whoopi Goldberg
In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator. View quote
Jean Cocteau
How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly? View quote
Richard Donner
When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness. View quote
Lauren Bacall
Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress. View quote
Dorothy Parker
I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager. View quote
Sylvester Stallone
I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself. (Mark Ruffalo)
To be an actor, you have to be a child. View quote
Paul Newman
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation. View quote
Billy Wilder
When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams. View quote
Anton Chekhov
I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor. View quote
Sophia Bush
I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that. View quote
David Ogden Stiers
The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe. View quote
Lee Strasberg
A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered. View quote
Lee Strasberg
My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre. View quote
Steve Buscemi
Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore. View quote
Bonnie Wright
The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman. (Gérard Depardieu)
I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor. View quote
Owen Wilson
A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned. View quote
Ewan McGregor
Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder. View quote
Ben Kingsley
As an actor, you can't be off the market for too long. View quote
Matt Dillon