Actor Quotes

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
Oscar Wilde

Give, While, Ask

How can a president not be an actor?
Ronald Reagan

There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.
Marilyn Monroe

Yourself, Moment, Acting

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.
Marilyn Monroe

Sensitive, Instrument, Supposed

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?
Marilyn Monroe

Good, Care, Everybody

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.
Henry David Thoreau

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.
Johnny Depp

Saying, Serious, Catch

The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'
Will Smith

Time, Fresh, Prince

A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.
Will Smith

Yourself, True, Changing

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

Food, Serious, Republican

They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.
Clint Eastwood

Crazy, Thinking, Give

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
W. C. Fields

Great, Husband, Show

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.
Clint Eastwood

Him, Enjoy, Become

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.
Rodney Dangerfield

Time, Acting, Himself

And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.
Angelina Jolie

Great, Dad, Father

Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.
Carroll O'Connor

Character, Down, Old

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me.
James Dean

Character, Help, Learned

Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel.
Persis Khambatta

Insecurity, Insecure, Creative

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
James Dean

Life, Fact, Accept

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'
Alfred Hitchcock

Character, Motivation, Wants

Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.
James Dean

Good, Done, Before

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.
James Dean

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
Orson Welles

Heart, Bad, Everything

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.
James Dean

Acting, Anyone, Physical

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.
Steve Martin

Someone, Writing, Real

You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.
Harvey Fierstein

Romantic, Character, Often

My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.
Harvey Fierstein

Family, Father, Everything

I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.
Harvey Fierstein

Work, Nice, Hard

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.
Jim Carrey

Love, Greatest, Here

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.
Henry Miller

Word, Beginning, Act

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