Quotessence
Home / Topics / Actors Quotes

Actors Quotes

Browse 10177 quotes about Actors.

Related topics

ThinkingPeopleIfsWantKnowsCharacterActingFilmDirectorsWayPlayFeelsTryingMovieKindJobsDifferentRolesWantedLooksI CanYearsWellsWorldFirstsShowsNeedsWritingGivingLittlesPersonsRealAudienceSceneDoneStageTheaterStoriesShouldHardBigsSometimesAbleStarsYoungCareersImportantGood ActorsFunScriptsMenGuyTwoTheatreMadeStillsGreat ActorsLongMeanKidsActressesWholePerformancesSaidCertainMomentsProcessCamerasChildrenInterestingHappensIdeasBitsHas BeensArtistBelieveTvsStuffTelevisionHollywoodEndsLinesComedyWould BeDoeArtWatchesCan DoEnoughOpportunitySchoolChallengesReasonCharacter ActorsHelpingHumansMightMindUsedFilmmakingmore

Actors Quotes

“Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.”

PeopleShouldArtSaidPlayWantedSchoolDesireActorsActingTeacherTalentFootballGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolAcceptedHonestlyPerformingGradesAuditionsWhimPerforming ArtsEnglish Teacher
Author:Ving Rhames
Create image

“It is in the irony of things that the theatre should be the most dangerous place for the actor. But, then, after all, the world is the worst possible place, the most corrupting place, for the human soul. And just as there is no escape from the world, which follows us into the very heart of the desert, so the actor cannot escape the theatre. And the actor who is a dreamer need not. All of us can only strive to remain uncontaminated. In the world we must be unworldly, in the theatre the actor must be untheatrical.”

WorldNeedsShouldHumansHeartSoulActorsWorstDangerousTheaterStriveTheatreDesertIronyDreamerHuman SoulDangerous Places
Author:Minnie Maddern Fiske
Create image

“It's disheartening that animal people criticize societies that enlist the help of actors or organize creative acts like 'I'd rather go naked than wear fur,' to increase public awareness to our cause. These are great/courageous ideas which time has come! Liberation of animals is REVOLUTION - not elegant performance/ intellectual competition. We should do most anything to advance the animal rights cause. All the bickering may make the one step forward... TWO STEPS BACKWARD???”

PeopleShouldMayTwoIdeasHelpingActorsCausesAnimalStepsCreativeRightsAwarenessRevolutionIntellectualPerformancesIncreaseCompetitionNakedLiberationCourageousCriticizeAnimal RightsOrganizeElegantFurSteps ForwardBickeringDisheartening
Author:Adela Popescu
Create image

“The idea is to keep reinventing yourself. Once you attain a certain status as an actor, your fans start expecting from you and you should be able to fulfill them. That's why I try to choose as many different kind of roles as I can so that my fans are not disappointed with me. It would also get boring for me as an actor to keep repeating myself.”

ShouldTryingKindI CanIdeasDifferentAbleCertainActorsRolesFansBoringDisappointedDifferent KindsExpectingReinventingReinventing Yourself
Author:Arjun Rampal
Create image

“What I have always found most beautiful in the theatre, in my childhood, and still today, is lustre--a beautiful object, luminous, crystalline, complex, circular, symmetrical. However, I do not absolutely deny the value of dramatic literature. Only, I should like the actors to be mounted on high pattens, to wear masks more expressive than the human face, and to speak through megaphones.”

ShouldHumansStillsTodayBeautifulFacesValuesActorsFoundLiteratureSpeakChildhoodObjectsComplexesDenyTheatreDramaticMaskLuminousExpressiveHuman FacesSymmetricalBeautiful Objects
Book:Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry
Create image

“Actors, who should pride themselves on their singularity, are forever trying to be someone else. It isn’t necessary for you, the actor, to like yourself— self-love isn’t easy to come by for most of us— but you must learn to trust who you are. There is no one else like you.”

ShouldTryingSelfActorsEasyForeverLike YouPrideSelf LoveWho You AreSingularityLike Yourself
Book:Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part
Create image

“Our life is managed from behind the scenes: we are actors in dramas that we cannot interpret. Of almost no decisive event can we say: this was our own choosing. We happen upon careers, necessity pushing, blind inclination pulling. If we stop to think we are amazed that we should be what we are.”

IfsThinkingLifeShouldHappensLife IsActorsBehindsCareersOur LivesEventsDramaSceneBlindPushingPullingAmazedInclinationBehind The Scenes
Book:Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest
Create image

“Unfortunately, throughout the housing crisis we've seen innocent homeowners who have been victims of shady mortgage lenders and unscrupulous individuals who have used a down market to line their own pockets at the expense of others. This bill is designed to send a message by revising our laws to ensure criminals are brought to justice and that law enforcement has the tools to uncover these fraudulent schemes and go after the bad actors. Criminals should be put on notice that ripping off homeowners and taxpayers won't be tolerated.”

ShouldHas BeensLawUsedActorsIndividualLinesJusticeMessagesToolsCrisisVictimBillsCriminalsInnocentPocketsExpensesSchemesLaw EnforcementEnforcementHousingTaxpayersMortgageShadyRevisingLendersHomeownersHousing Crisis
Author:Chuck Grassley
Create image

“There should always be that leeway because if you think of your character as sort of absolutely fixed, then you just try and find actors to come and do exactly that thing, then you're not gonna be working with that actor's own set of internal impulses and who they are, so the best work is always a coming together of the actor and the character.”

IfsThinkingShouldTryingCharacterTogetherActorsImpulseFixedInternalsThink Of YouBest WorkComing Together
Author:Lenny Abrahamson
Create image

“I should say, a piece of advice that was given to me very early on by the principle of RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) which is where I went. When he auditioned me, he said, "Your speech, monologue, is fine. It's good. Yeah, I think you have ability but you're making it happen. Don't make it happen, let it happen." And that's a sort of subtle shift I think, as an actor.”

ThinkingShouldArtSaidHappensActorsGivenAbilityPrinciplesPiecesAdviceFineSpeechYeahDramaticSubtleRoyalAcademyMake It HappenMonologues
Author:Ralph Fiennes
Create image

“Identity is a very difficult thing in the theatre. As an actor said to me one day, 'What are we doing today?' when we were doing a workshop. And I said, 'Oh, just be yourself'. And he said to me, 'I don't know who that is, I'm an actor'. And I begin to realise in fact that we seek identity because we're told we should have one, but I wonder whether it's necessary.”

KnowsShouldSaidFactsTodayActorsDifficultWonderIdentityOne DayShould HaveTheatreBeing YourselfRealisingDifficult ThingsWorkshopsJust Be Yourself
Author:George Ogilvie
Create image

“People often say that you should never work with child actors. I think that's all wrong. Children have not had the imagination kicked out of them by life experience and adulthood. So, they still are very much alive with that kind of magical thinking which enables an actor to believe they're in these circumstances and make them real to you.”

PeopleThinkingShouldBelieveKindChildrenStillsRealActorsImaginationAliveCircumstancesLife ExperienceAdulthoodChild ActorsMagical Thinking
Author:Nicolas Cage
Create image

“The actor must know that since he, himself, is the instrument, he must play on it to serve the character with the same effortless dexterity with which the violinist makes music on his. Just because he doesn't look like a violin is no reason to assume his techniques should be thought of as less difficult.”

KnowsShouldLooksReasonPlayCharacterActorsDifficultInstrumentsAssumingTechniqueNo ReasonViolinEffortlessViolinistDexterity
Book:Challenge For The Actor
Create image