Actors quotes

“Mrs. Bird-Actors are some of the most evil, devious people on the planet.
Mary Brown-Are they?
Mrs. Bird-They lie for a living.”
Julie Walters - Mrs Bird
Sally Hawkins - Mary Brown

“Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.”
Rod Serling - Narrator

“Oh, you think that I didn't have ambition? I was a good actor. But I was never going to be a great actor. It was very very hard to admit that to myself. But once I had, I felt free from the tyranny of ambition. I started to live.”
Hugh Grant - St Clair Bayfield

“I haven’t encountered this much resistance since I tried to get Timothée Chalamet to go out into the sun.”
Jameela Jamil - Tahani Al-Jamil

“I'm an old school actor in the sense. More and more now, I play myself as I get older. Even as a writer, I never got typecast. I've always bounced from project to project or initiated my own things.”
Jim Piddock

“I have immense admiration for the writer/directors and director/actors who just seamlessly do both jobs at the same time.”
Jim Piddock

“I think every actor should be always grateful when they work.”
Robert Knepper

“I feel like Nicole Kidman in 'Moulin Rouge.”
Lily Collins - Emily Cooper

“All actors should experience public failure.”
Olivia Wilde

“When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.”
Olivia Wilde

“As an actor conscious that you are in a theatre, you still have to make it look as spontaneous as if you did not know that you are being watched by 1,000 pairs of eyes.”
Sir Derek Jacobi

“I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.”
Sir Derek Jacobi

“I don't have actors in my family, but everyone is pretty artistic.”
Timothy Simons

“Actors can be good, say all these beautiful, wonderful things - but where does it come from? It comes from the writers, and people kind of forget that sometimes.”
Eva Marie Saint

“An actor's job is to entertain and I'm glad to say that my films succeeded in that respect.”
Peter Cushing

“In terms of jobs, I'm an actor. There's gotta' be depth there. I'd never say yes to something just to play the hot guy. That's not what I'm interested in.”
Bill Skarsgård

“As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.”
Chadwick Boseman

“You can be a dynamic actor, but could never be a star if you never spend time with the media. That's something that I neglected to do.”
Bokeem Woodbine

“Even though I'm an actor, I don't love sharing everything about myself. It's always good to keep a little bit for yourself.”
Theo James

“That's one of the fun parts of becoming an actor: You can become whoever you want to be.”
Micheal B. Jordan

“The life of an actor can be very lonely.”
Peter Dinklage

“The hardest thing about being a kid actor is just kind of separating 'this is my professional life' and 'this is my kid life.' That was always the hard part for me.”
Henry Thomas

“The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role - unless you're just vain about celebrity.”
Jonny Lee Miller

“I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because they've been on reality TV or something.”
Damian Lewis

“Let's get this straight, I am not Nijinsky. I am not Marlon Brando. I am Mrs. Hunter's little boy, Tony, song and dance man.”
Fred Astaire - Tony Hunter