Actor Quotes - page 2

The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience. (Arthur Sullivan)
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him. View quote
Orson Welles
Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil. View quote
W. C. Fields
I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me. View quote
Vincent Gallo
If you catch me saying ‘I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me. View quote
Johnny Depp
It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's black. View quote
Will Smith
I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it. View quote
Jim Carrey
I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood. View quote
Paul Newman
I didn't intend to become an actor. View quote
Anthony Quinn
In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor. View quote
Richard Donner
The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing. (Robert Carlyle)
I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor. View quote
Roger Moore
I didn't think I'd ever be an actor. View quote
Seth Rogen
With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph. View quote
William Boyd
I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job. View quote
James Gandolfini
I'm not sure people even think of me as an actor at all. View quote
James Corden
Acting is a craft, and you need to study to be an actor. View quote
Jason Ritter
I'm an actor, I'm not a comedian, I never was a comedian. View quote
Jonah Hill
If an actor is bored, then they are boring to an audience. I definitely don't want to ever be that. View quote
Eva Amurri
Every actor wants to be everybody - play all the roles. View quote
Kyle Chandler
It's much more enjoyable being an actor. (Kyle Chandler)
You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft. View quote
Leslie Nielsen
As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that. View quote
Lucas Grabeel
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession. View quote
Uta Hagen
To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles. View quote
Charlton Heston