I am not an actress. I am a mistress of disguise. Acting happens to be one of the perks

— Janna Cachola

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

— Kamand Kojouri

If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.

— Criss Jami

If you want to be a good actor or director, firstly see life, secondly see films and thirdly read books!

— Md. Ziaul Haque

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I knew exactly when the fever had struck. I had been reading Hamlet in an English class at school. Everyone else stumbled, puzzling over the strange words. Then it had been my turn, and the language had suddenly woken in me, so that my heart and lungs and tongue and throat were on fire. Later, I understood that this was why people spoke of Shakespeare as a god. At the time, I felt like weeping. Somebody had released me from dumbness, from utter isolation. I knew that I could live inside these words, that they would give me a shape, a shell. I had no idea, then, that I would never play Hamlet…. Furthermore, I’m an actor, and in a good year I earn eleven thousand pounds for dressing up as a carrot.

— Amanda Craig

I’m a bit-part actor in my own life

— Johnny Rich

I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.

— Paul Newman

I'm like a circus standing on two legs.

— Nuno Roque

In musical performances one can sense that the person on stage is having a good time even if they're singing a song about breaking up or being in a bad way. For an actor this would be anathema, it would destroy the illusion, but with singing one can have it both ways. As a singer, you can be transparent and reveal yourself on stage, at that moment, and at the same time be the person whose story is being told in the song. Not too many kinds of performance allow that.

— David Byrne