Aspiring Actors Quotes

#1. My advice to aspiring actors and writers is that your career's success is totally your responsibility. You need to make it happen. There is no end point to an artist's work, no set time line you have to live up to.

Christian Keiber

#2. I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.

Kristen Bell

#3. For aspiring actors out there, I would say stay focused and don't let anyone pull you away from your goals. Shoot for the stars so that if you ever fall short you can land on the clouds.

Ryan Guzman

#4. My teeth are all right, but they are not American teeth, and my hair is not thick and luscious. Los Angeles is dense with beautiful people, and most of the men who are aspiring actors are 5ft 5in, so I tower above them.

Stephen Merchant

#5. Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part.

Olivia Wilde

#6. Being on stage is a seductive lifestyle. My advice to aspiring actors is think twice. People sometimes go into acting for the wrong reasons - as a shortcut to fame and fortune. If these goals are not attained, they feel a bitter disappointment.

Chris Sarandon

#7. I have mentored two young aspiring actors and I wish that I had known I could look for a mentor because it would have been a lot easier to be able to ask those questions to someone who had gone through it already.

Erica Schroeder

#8. With family dramas, it's hard to keep those stories alive.

Emily VanCamp

#9. Good stories take your imagination to anywhere

Raphaela Mello

#10. Adam?"
"Yes, Peri."
"Remind me to get you checked out by the veterinarian when this is done. Your excitement for killing things is beginning to become disturbing, and I worry that I will one day soon find you furry, flea infested, licking your butt, and enjoying it way to much.

Quinn Loftis

#11. I look at leading men because that's ultimately what I'm aspiring to do. But I also look at character actors and people that I'm just in awe by, just because I can relate to it.

Shemar Moore

#12. Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.

Barbara Kingsolver

#13. I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.

Ted Lindsay

#14. I like to go on YouTube to see the underground sounds, what the kids are listening to, and kind of gauge my music around that.

Missy Elliot

#15. Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.

Keith Johnstone

#16. The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love
where will it have its say, to excite and inspire, and when?

Yasunari Kawabata

#17. I think I'd make a loving, caring, understanding boyfriend, who's in touch with his emotions. Or at least I'd like to be.

Brian Littrell

#18. Stone Mountain, Georgia, still had Ku Klux Klan marches, and I had a wild and courageous mother who'd put us in the car to watch them. She wanted us to know those things existed.

Nicole Beharie

#19. The world has improved mostly because unorthodox people did unorthodox things. Not surprisingly, they had the courage and daring to think they could make a difference.

Ruby Dee