Actor Quotes
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I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.
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My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.
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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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And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.
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I'm an eccentric English actor, and there's a lot of us around.
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And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.
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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 have to say as an actor I have been inspired by so many British actors throughout the years.
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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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To be respected as an actor it doesn't help to be seen out in the clubs.
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Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.
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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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I never thought I'd be an actor.
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As an actor, you're constantly looking to be pushed.
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In fact you can begin to discover and investigate whether you are an actor or not, whether you're in my view, qualified for a life in this profession or in this endeavor by checking yourself out and acting every day, getting plays and scripts and getting together with people and divvying up the parts and acting in one way or another, or writing things.
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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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I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.
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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.
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I'm a bit hyperactive as an actor, I like to keep moving.
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Being referred to as a hunk or a heartthrob makes me nervous, but it's flattering. But I'm more interested in being an actor than a heartthrob.
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I really enjoy being an actor!
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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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I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love.
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The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
