68 Movie Quotes about Actors (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jul 2, 2026

Memorable quotes about actors, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 A boy like you? Who are you? Who are you? Some kind of special aristocracy because the female public wants to make love with you?

Rod Steiger as Stanley Shriner Hoff in The Big Knife (1955)

2 Well, being an actor is no different than being a rugby player or a construction worker, save for the fact that my tools are the mechanisms that trigger human emotion.

Robert Downey Jr. as Kirk Lazarus in Tropic Thunder (2008)

3 I don't read the script, script reads me.

Robert Downey Jr. as Kirk Lazarus in Tropic Thunder (2008)

4 Home? But I'm doing five shows a day for a standing-room-only crowd. Don't you get it? I already am home.

Ben Stiller as Tugg Speedman in Tropic Thunder (2008)

5 Me? I know who I am! I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.

Robert Downey Jr. as Kirk Lazarus in Tropic Thunder (2008)

6 Or are you a dude who has no idea what dude he is and claims to know what dude he is by playing other dudes?

Ben Stiller as Tugg Speedman in Tropic Thunder (2008)

7 My acting? My acting? My acting just got a thousand people killed. Jesus, I've done it again.

Trey Parker as Gary Johnston in Team America: World Police

8 We've all done action films. If anyone tries to get in our way, we'll show them just how tough us actors really are.

Alec Baldwin in Team America: World Police

9 Now watch this. I think I got a real handle on my character here. I'm playing mean with a kind of a sad reluctance.

George Peppard as Col. John Hannibal Smith in The A-Team

10 Does that mean I'm an actor? -Sure! I will push you in the public's eye!

Charles Judels as Stromboli; Richard Percy Jones as Pinocchio in Pinocchio (1939)