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Actor Quotes

The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or poet unlimited.

– William Shakespeare

Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2. Polonius, who likes to hear himself talk, announces the arrival of the troupe of traveling actors in this comical way.

I had a come-to-Jesus moment. There was a training accident with white phosphorous where we very easily could have died. After that happened I thought, The two things I really want to do are smoke cigarettes and be an actor.

– Adam Driver

On his time in the military.

I’m always the interrogator. When I was an actor in rep, I always played sinister parts. The directors always said, ‘If there’s a nasty man about, cast Harold Pinter.’

– Harold Pinter

I’m the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.

– Helena Bonham Carter

My whole history of being an actor is unusual and slightly disgraceful because it should be something you burn to do.

– Hugh Grant

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.

– George Pierce Baker

Music is a very big part of my preparation as an actor.

– Hailee Steinfeld

If everyone’s ready for a shot to start, except for one actor who’s intent on getting to the bottom of their soul, it can be a bit annoying.

– Ian Holm

As a director, I’ve been able to combine with what I’ve learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.

– Griffin Dunne

It’s part of the job of the actor to torture the director.

– Harrison Ford

I’ve wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little boy.

– Henry Darrow

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

– Henry Miller

There’s no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.

– Henry Rollins

The two things an actor dreads most are children and dogs.

– George Gaynes

Too many actors try to get too much out of scenes that they ought to be leaving alone, just doing them quickly and getting the hell out.

– Howard Hawks

When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

– Harrison Ford

Claude Rains was what we call an actor’s actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance.

– Gloria Stuart

I don’t consider myself a good actor.

– Hrithik Roshan

The actor’s popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

– Harrison Ford

I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.

– Humphrey Bogart

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

– Harold MacMillan

In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I’m this hunk.

– Harry Hamlin

I’ve been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it’s 11 or 12 years.

– Gabriel Luna

I did a movie called ‘The Savages’ with Laura Linney and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, where I played a nurse, and it showed me in a different role from what I played on ‘The Wire.’ It showed my range as an actor.

– Gbenga Akinnagbe

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

– Henry David Thoreau

Peter Mullan is the least method actor around.

– Harry Lloyd

My journey has been that of a character actor.

– Harry Carey, Jr.

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.

– Griffin Dunne

August, the summer’s last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

– Henry Rollins

I’m a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.

– Hamish Linklater

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