Actor Quotes
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I saved every script I'd ever worked on as an actor.
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As far as I'm concerned... there's a side to an actor that wants to go on and play a thousand different roles.
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I went to my school careers counselors and said I wanted to be an actor, and they didn't know what to do. They showed me catalogues with pretty campuses and said, 'Oh, look, there's a theater building. Why don't you go there?'
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Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.
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One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity.
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If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.
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I'm an actor, and everything about me - the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world - has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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...and there I suddenly found my articulate self in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes and doing all sorts of clever things. And that's when I knew! What other life could there be but that of an actor?
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I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
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You can learn a lot from somebody's video bio: if you're not going to gel with the actor or a crew.
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I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
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It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.
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On stage, I'm this figure, this actor, who does things that people aren't used to seeing and I relish in that reaction. In real life, though, I play golf, I shop and I walk around with no makeup on and my hair in a ponytail. I may not be the typical middle-aged Joe, but I'm closer to normal than you think.
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After I began to explore what an actor actually is, I studied for three years before I had the guts to go on an audition.
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Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's just for fun. It is actually a hobby for me now. I do still love stage acting, but the day-to-day process of being an actor is so exhausting and so taxing.
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I've done stuff to pay my dues and that's what actors are supposed to do, because I was a really bad actor when I was 18 or 20.
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An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
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This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating.
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There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.
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It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work.
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I live with someone, actor Peter Krause, who didn't find an interest in being an actor until the very end of college. So my message is: There's so much freedom left. There's no ticking clock. It's just not true.
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I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.
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I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.
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As an actor, a lot of things you do, people don't see it.
