I’ve called myself an actor – I won’t say I’ve been an actor, but I’ve called myself an actor – since 1989. That’s when I moved to Los Angeles. – Jeffrey Dean Morgan
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
I always knew I’d be more of a character actor than a leading man, and I always wanted to take that and run with it. – B. D. Wong
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
I’m an actor, but I’m also a feminist, and a lot of times in movies there are things that I cannot imagine happening that are on the screen and totally accepted. And I just go, ‘Whaaat?’ – Alison Pill
At any period of an actor’s life, it’s fairly likely that they’ll be cast in ways that are reminiscent. That’s the way it goes. – Ben Mendelsohn
You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn’t get the part. – John McEnroe
I wanted really to make it moment to moment, partly because I’m an actor and that’s how I operate – actors are all about creating the moment. – Anthony Rapp
All that I am is me. So I’m not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I’m me, and these are things that I do. – John Trudell
I’m not sure I’m the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about. – Iain Glen
Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor. – Claire Tomalin
As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor. – Brendan Fraser
I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that? – Alan Alda
Every actor is a model to a certain extent, since they have to do so much press. – Christy Turlington
Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less. – Clint Eastwood
At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals. – Andrew Rannells
Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages. – Cameron Diaz