64 Movie Quotes about Actors (+ Sound Clips) - page 4

Updated: Sep 20, 2025

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.

31 Oh, the first signs are always the same... not being able to remember your lines, the cameraman struggling to cover up your hangovers... all because you've got to have a good time every day, every night.

Janet Gaynor as Esther Blodgett in A Star is Born

32 Yes. I say we'll, we'll write and let you know. -Let me know what? -That you're no good for the part.

Harry Secombe; Harry Secombe as Neddie Seagoon in The Goon Show

33 Well... I guess he won't need me anymore. What does an actor want with a conscience anyway?

Cliff Edwards as Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio (1939)

34 Actor? You call this an actor? He hasn't been able to remember a line for the last 10 years.

Humphrey Bogart as Dix Steele in In a Lonely Place

35 Bottom line is they can't drive the boat. They're actors.

Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank in The Truman Show

36 If I had yelled 'cut' on time, those actors would be alive today.

Steve Martin as Navin R. Johnson in The Jerk

37 How to be a TV actor. And here is lesson number the one.

Daws Butler as Snagglepuss in Snagglepuss (1961)

38 You are what you do. A man is defined by his actions... not his memory.

Marshall Bell as Kuato in Total Recall (1990)

39 It's great to be a celebrity. An actor's life for me.

Walter Catlett as Honest John in Pinocchio (1940)

40 Man, I don't drop character till I done a DVD commentary.

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