Famous quotes by Actors

Actors

Actors bring characters to life and often share candid reflections on craft, creativity, and the human experience. These quotes span moments of triumph and doubt, preparation and improvisation, stage and screen, offering brief windows into the discipline, curiosity, and resilience that drive performance. Whether you love classic cinema, contemporary television, or theater, you may find wisdom, humor, and inspiration in their words. Enjoy a range of perspectives that illuminate storytelling, collaboration, fame, and the everyday work behind unforgettable roles.

"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem"

David Carradine, Actor

Small: David Carradine

"You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it"

Denzel Washington, Actor

Small: Denzel Washington

"Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

Small: Peter Ustinov

"He who has the gold makes the rules"

Tyler Perry, Actor

"May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live"

Tom Hanks, Actor

Small: Tom Hanks

"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath"

Michael Caine, Actor

"You're only as good as your last performance"

Al Pacino, Actor

Small: Al Pacino

"Get off your horse and drink your milk"

John Wayne, Actor

"Family is not an important thing, it's everything"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?"

Alec Guinness, Actor

"Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself"

Patrick McGoohan, Actor

"You'll have time to rest when you're dead"

Robert De Niro, Actor

Small: Robert De Niro

"Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid"

John Wayne, Actor

"Vanity is my favourite sin"

Al Pacino, Actor

Small: Al Pacino

"It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

Small: Peter Ustinov

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday"

John Wayne, Actor

"If you have been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, then you're a badass with a heart of an angel"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

Small: Keanu Reeves

"The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind"

Humphrey Bogart, Actor

Small: Humphrey Bogart

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today"

James Dean, Actor

Small: James Dean

"You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led"

Stan Laurel, Actor

Small: Stan Laurel

"When I get sad I stop being sad and be AWESOME instead. True story!"

Barney Stinson, Actor

Small: Barney Stinson

"A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others"

Frank Morgan, Actor

"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot"

Charlie Chaplin, Actor

Small: Charlie Chaplin

"It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action"

Harold Ramis, Actor

Small: Harold Ramis

"Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it"

Will Rogers, Actor

Small: Will Rogers

"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story"

Orson Welles, Actor

Small: Orson Welles

"Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'"

Charlie Chaplin, Actor

Small: Charlie Chaplin

"I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

Small: Arnold Schwarzenegger

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times"

Bruce Lee, Actor

Small: Bruce Lee

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him"

Forrest Tucker, Actor

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