Actor Quotes
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Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.
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Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point.
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I have an older brother who is an actor as well.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'
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For me, I was a musician long before I was an actor.
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After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.
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One of the biggest misconceptions about me is that I'm a comedian, which I'm not. A comedian is someone who can stand up in front of an audience and make you laugh. I've never done stand-up and I never will. I'm a comic actor. My comedy comes through my characters.
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I always wanted to be an actor and I'd never dreamt that not only would I be able to do this for a living, but also on top of that I'd be able to choose and steer the course of my own career.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
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In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.
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There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.
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I think it would be pompous to say I am an underrated actor. I don't think it is for me to think and decide; it is for people to decide. But I am glad I am underrated than being overrated - that is something I would find hard to digest.
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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Nowadays, you can be a fan of someone that's not an actor or artist. You can be a fan of someone that makes YouTube videos.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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I enjoy playing villains - I'm very proud that I belong to a very honorable tradition of British actors who come to Hollywood to play the bad guys. At some point in American film, I think there was the idea that the British accent had a tone to it that's a little bit naughty.
