Top 100 Being An Actor Quotes
#1. Work-home-work-home, that's being an actor. Being a rock star? I get to travel the world, meet all the fans in person, party with my fans every night, and people who appreciate the art.
Mitchel Musso
#3. I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.
Dustin Clare
#4. There are two jobs. There is being an actor, and there is being a celebrity. Some people are really good at both. Some people are really good celebrities and terrible actors, and some people are really good actors and terrible celebrities. Hopefully, I am a really good actor and an OK celebrity.
Tim Daly
#5. In L.A., being an actor is like a pastime, everybody there is like, "I was on this reality show; I'm an actor." It becomes a word that is loosely thrown around.
Condola Rashad
#6. As a kid, I used to sing, dance, I was into dramatics. I would love to pursue being an actor, but not as such as a hero.
Terence Lewis
#7. Being an actor all of my life is kind of a collaborative, social form of interpretive art. Sitting down with a blank page every day by yourself is a different feeling.
Michael Beck
#8. That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.
Bruce Boxleitner
#9. I don't wilt easily, and a director can't either. He's the captain of the ship and he's got to be in total control. He also has to have respect for the people he's working for. From being an actor and being on a set my whole life, I'm very comfortable there. And I'm not afraid.
Ricky Schroder
#10. Developmental readings are actually the best part of being an actor for me. I once spent a month doing so many developmental readings at the Roundabout that we all joked that I was an 'artist in residence' there. But to me, it's such a special time to be involved with a new play.
Sarah Steele
#11. I enjoy being an actor largely; in part at least, because you get to walk a mile in another person's shoes, you get to see what their skin is like. The other good thing is you get to leave it.
Michael Chiklis
#12. Personally, when I'm not working, I like to do as many things outside of the industry as I can - other things that make me happy. You kind of need to be grounded in something else besides just being an actor.
Liam Hemsworth
#13. Being an actor, we're so dependent on the writers.
Amy Ryan
#14. What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse's friend's brother who was having problems with his marriage.
Peter Capaldi
#15. You know, my point in being an actor is to get people to believe that this is not about me, but something else.
Jim Caviezel
#16. One of the things that's awesome about being an actor is that you get to do stories, live lives and have experiences that you never could have even conceived of, and that's because you're living in another writer's imagination and another director's imagination.
Brit Marling
#18. The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.
Jack Gleeson
#19. When I was a young person working, everybody was older than me, so I had to kind of keep up. I'd see every movie and listen to everything played, and read all the relevant books. Being an actor, it's kind of your job to know what came before you and how big your feelings are allowed to be.
Natasha Lyonne
#20. I love acting, but being an actor for hire only serves so much, and then you want to fill your well up again and be charged by something else.
Jennifer Aniston
#21. Boxing is a lot of preparation and then improvising, so there are parallels to being an actor.
Seth Numrich
#22. Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.
Meryl Streep
#23. I suppose expectations are strange and I shy away from them. And the whole point of being an actor is to connect.
Nicole Kidman
#24. I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.
Daniel Baldwin
#25. I was a bit of a goofball. I was always silly. I think that lends itself to being an actor.
Rob McClure
#26. When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor.
David Antin
#27. People say that one of the most important things about being an actor is to have thick skin, but I don't think that's it. Because you can't just walk around being tough, you have to be able to be vulnerable to do this. So really, it's about not being defensive.
Jess Weixler
#28. One of the difficult things about being an actor is to stick around.
Christopher Walken
#29. The home of Rugby Union is in Twickenham - just outside London in the suburbs, where I live. I'm mad for it. The trouble with being an actor and being in the theater is that you always miss the games.
Alexander Hanson
#30. He[John Cassavetes] was just being an actor. A very successful actor, especially in live TV. He did many wonderful performances.
Gena Rowlands
#31. I've never taken time off from being an actor. This is the kind of career I'd be so happy to do until I die. I always joke to myself that I want to have a postmortem Academy Award Nomination.
Ansel Elgort
#32. I think there are definite parallels between sport and art. There's a real sense of sacrifice. There's a real sense of dedication that is needed in sport that I think you can attribute to art. I think so much of it is about bravery and courage, being an actor.
Matt Smith
#33. I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy or fancy like that. I just love playing characters and getting paid for it, and that's what I want to do till the day I die.
Rainn Wilson
#34. I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.
Tom Hiddleston
#35. There is a lot of struggle in being an actor; you need so much emotional strength, no matter what level of stardom you have, that it's nice to have something steady.
Sanaa Lathan
#36. I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.
Juliette Binoche
#37. Being a conservative union member is almost like being an actor in Hollywood: You don't dare say it, or you might be injured on the job, or you might be laid off, or your family might have something happen to them.
Rush Limbaugh
#38. Doing 'Prometheus' was what you imagine being an actor is like when you're five. In a spacesuit, on another planet, getting killed by an alien. It was a real treat; it felt like being a part of movie history.
Rafe Spall
#39. It's true that the skills required to be a conman are the same as those required for being an actor. Though those skills are in the service of something a bit more noble with acting, I hope.
John C. Reilly
#40. I was very vocal about what I wanted to do at a very young age. I wanted to be inside of the television set. I didn't know being on TV was being an actor.
Bresha Webb
#41. For some time, I thought being a producer would be a more fulfilling career than being an actor. But then I went to a conference in Cannes with 300 other producers, all desperately chasing finance for their projects ... and realized being an actor wasn't so bad after all!
William Kircher
#42. When I was younger, I was worried about how others viewed me and if I was good enough. I realize now that you can't mold an image or try to be something that you are not. As far as being an actor is concerned, your work really speaks for itself.
River Phoenix
#43. Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I'd done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.
Jeff Bridges
#44. I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what they want. And that can be really, really frustrating.
Ricky Jay
#45. Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.
Amanda Burton
#46. But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor.
Toby Jones
#47. Being an actor is like winning the lottery. It's not really about your talent, it's right time, right place, right face.
Vincent Kartheiser
#48. My oldest step-son wants to direct or produce. As far as being an actor, I've already told them they have to wait until they're 18; I won't take them to auditions.
Elizabeth Perkins
#49. But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.
Douglas Wood
#50. Being an actor is really, really hard, no matter how you slice it.
Amanda Peet
#51. One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.
Ted Danson
#52. In a weird way, that's the beauty of being an actor. You get to live out things that you're afraid of, and you get to say, 'Well, maybe I can get to the end of it and survive it intact and I can be the hero of my own story.' It's kind of a way of exorcising fear.
Jodie Foster
#54. It's a pretty good job being an actor, but it's work sometimes. And when I say work, I mean it's a job. You're going to a job.
Matt Dillon
#55. You can keep yourself alive. That's the magic of being an actor.
Sonia Braga
#56. Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.
Joel Edgerton
#57. I've always had a flare for the dramatic. I thought about being an actor and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do, just to stay sane. It's my over-pressure valve.
Marti Noxon
#58. I always thought on my own that what is a huge part of being an actor, or what made me a better actor, was just really living life. Not being closed in on life, but being more open to experiences and to people and taking risks and exposing yourself to things.
Dominik Garcia-Lorido
#59. Sometimes it feels weird being an actor surrounded by all these real fighters and you gotta keep your confidence high and do your best to learn it as quickly as possible.
Sean Faris
#60. I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director.
Arne Glimcher
#61. Being an actor, you can get spoilt a little bit: car services come and pick you up, you get put up in nice hotels, people fetch you coffee, and so on. It is wonderful, but you can get lost in that world pretty quickly and start believing that it is real life.
Neil Jackson
#62. In a business like the movie business, you're going to have a lot of people competing. Somebody is always coming behind them who wants their job. Being an actor is like being in quicksand: whatever you do, it disappears very quickly. You have to keep reminding people.
Robert Osborne
#63. Richard Donner's friendship and guidance showed me that there's more to life than being an actor.
Jeff Cohen
#64. My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
#65. The big challenge for me was just trying to ignore the embarrassment of being an actor. It's a pretty embarrassing thing to do. You've got people pointing cameras at you and hundreds of people watching you, as you're trying to be great. And often, almost every time, you're not.
Chris Pratt
#66. The thing I love about being an actor is the ability to travel and experience new cultures.
Paul Wesley
#67. I love my job, I love being an actor and stepping into the shoes of different characters and exploring their lives. It's enriched my life extremely. I've learned more about myself and the ways of life through being an actor.
Hilary Swank
#68. Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been trying that for forty years.
George Burns
#69. I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.
Jillian Bach
#70. Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.
Paul Newman
#71. Part of what's cool about being an actor or being in this industry, frankly, is to be able to travel to distant lands. That's part of the deal. I always thought when I was growing up, I wanna be an actor and go see the world.'
Lake Bell
#72. Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you'd rather not know the answers to.
Kevin Spacey
#73. The hardest thing about being an actor, for me, is that if you are the 0.00001% of individuals who wants to do it, you're a freak. And you're an assertive freak. Though actors are often shy, there's this tremendous assertive extroversion in you somewhere.
Janel Moloney
#74. The truth in acting is that we are all hired help. We are a commodity. There is no difference between being an actor and pork bellies.
Lorraine Bracco
#75. I admire actors that consistently challenge themselves and play a wide range of different roles. Every actor has a reason for being an actor ... it's boring to play the same person over and over again. People like Daniel Day Lewis, who completely transform time and time again, I look up to.
Joe Dempsie
#76. Part of being an actor is being able to contribute to a character's rhythms. If there's room to explore, you find a happy medium. We almost always get it as written, and then, we throw some improvs in or some alternatives.
Elizabeth Meriwether
#77. And when I was a kid being an actor was not cool. I'm thirty now and when I was a kid in the 80s that wasn't a cool thing to be.
Vincent Kartheiser
#78. To go on being an actor, you need sheer animal energy. If you can't restock your energy, you have to hide your lack of it.
Hume Cronyn
#79. There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue.
Sterling Hayden
#80. I never even thought about being an actor. Somebody asked me if I'd like to learn the craft, and I said, 'Okay.' I was a gymnast in a show at that time, and somebody asked me afterwards one night. I performed as a gymnast for nine years, and then I did acting after that.
Mads Mikkelsen
#81. One of the joys of being an actor is that you're always learning new things. And I've been doing this since I was 19, so there's been a lot of new things I have learned for each part. I always assume that I can do it.
Richard Gere
#82. I think part of the fun of being an actor is getting to work with different directors and seeing their take on it, what they're passionate about. They all have different ideas about your character.
Elizabeth Reaser
#83. I don't want to just fall back on the fact that I was on the cover of 'GQ' for being an actor.
Ansel Elgort
#84. Everybody has parts of themselves that they're not 100% happy with - that's what makes you human. And being an actor, your job is to play human beings. Your job is to play real people.
Katie Lowes
#85. The thing that I enjoy about being an actor and the thing that I enjoy about the arts in general is the ability to make the audience feel an emotion that they weren't intending to feel before they went in.
Kal Penn
#86. I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all about theater and touring and sort of being an actor around Scottish theater.
Sam Heughan
#87. I love being an actor, especially in movies, because you get to be someone else.
Mason Cook
#88. Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#89. I never dreamed of being an actor, but I'm beginning to love it more and more because I like challenging myself. When I feel like I'm not learning or having fun anymore, then I'll stop.
Kristin Kreuk
#90. That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about.
Joel Edgerton
#91. It's very difficult being an actor and being away for a lot of time, but my sons haven't complained too much too often.
Max Von Sydow
#92. There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.
Justin Kirk
#93. I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.
Kate Beckinsale
#94. I don't want to be quoted as 'Tom Hiddleston, psychologist says ... ' But there is a psychological aspect to being an actor. We are particular students of human nature - not every actor is, of course, but that's what fascinates me about being an actor.
Tom Hiddleston
#95. I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.
Romola Garai
#96. I've never been in jeopardy, but being an actor is a pretty shady place to be because you never know where your next job is.
Kat Dennings
#97. I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.
Eddie Marsan
#98. Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician.
Grant-Lee Phillips
#99. One of the gifts of being an actor is that you get to learn new things see the world through different eyes.
Tanc Sade
#100. Being an actor started me writing, and that led to directing.
Chris Eigeman
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