Actor Quotes
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I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.
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I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
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As an actor, you're constantly looking to be pushed.
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I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor – the day in and day out of it.
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If I'd had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, 'You can either be a footballer or an actor,' I'd have said: 'Well, can't I be a footballing actor?'
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I have to say as an actor I have been inspired by so many British actors throughout the years.
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And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.
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I never thought I'd be an actor.
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I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.
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I'm very bad at being an actor or guitarist. The sign on my gravestone would be, 'I've been getting away with it all my life.'
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Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.
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To be respected as an actor it doesn't help to be seen out in the clubs.
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As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'
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It's one of those things where if I do a movie, I don't even know if I'm any good. So, I may do one and it sucks and I'm a horrible actor, and I'll never do another one.
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Thankfully, the life of an actor can be quite balanced anyway. If you look over the course of a whole year, you do tend to have periods of down time. So, it's about managing the balance.
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I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.
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I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love.
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Being an actor, I never think I'm going to get the part. It's always a thrill when things go the way you hope they will.
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I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter.
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For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career as a musician. It was just something that I did on my own time, just for me. I had written a lot of songs, but I don't really record a lot of music because, for me, it's the same way as a poet: I write to get things out. It's sort of cathartic.
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There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.
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Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor would pass it up.
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With the type of actor I am, which includes really diving into a role and making it as real as possible, there's nothing better than working in a real environment on location. It forces you to feel what the character's feeling, and it allows you to live in the space of the character.
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For people who seriously want to get into voiceover acting, clearly the most important thing is that you must be a good actor. That comes first. That's why celebrities get so much work in voiceovers - we've seen their work, we know they're good actors.
