Actor Quotes
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As someone who makes his living as an actor, my routine varies almost every day. There are weeks I'm working and weeks I'm not. People think it must be great to have all that time off, but you'd be surprised how quickly that grass would become greener. The idle brain is the devil's playground.
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I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.
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As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being justified.
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I always feel like I have to prove myself as an actor, otherwise you get lazy if you're not slightly terrified that you're going to fail all the time.
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I've been very lucky to have had the opportunity to play a diverse cast of characters in the short time I've been a voice actor.
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My chosen occupation isn’t necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.
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You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.
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It's funny, when you become an actor and you're successful, they don't want to talk about acting any more. 'Hey let's talk about that stuff you were fired from.'
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The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.
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It is very essential as an actor to be a perfectionist and have a knack for doing different roles over a period of time to keep their fans entertained.
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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.
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On being an actor ....nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.
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I believe that a web series allows actors the freedom to express their views.
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I became an actor because I love solving problems. I'm a big crossword puzzle person. I love doing research. One of the reasons I became Jewish is because I love text study.
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I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it.
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I'm not particularly good at 'celebrity'; I don't think it was something I was born to do. I think I can get by as an actor, but I've never been one for the red carpet and don't put a lot of stock in celebrities that are famous for being famous.
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If I have to wear a hat as a producer to do that, then I'm willing to do that. An actor's, producer's and director's point-of-view is all the same to me, as long as the story's being told.
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Being an actor is about having the courage to follow your instincts, and also having the discipline and dedication to sacrifice the things in your life that you need to sacrifice to get the best out of yourself artistically.
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One of the great things about my job is I get to do all of these things that I may not experience had I not been an actor.
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One of the most empowering things about being a self-employed actor is also one of the hardest things; I get to set my own goals.
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Actors are smart. They have to feel safe enough to fall and to get back up. My job is to make sure they don't get hurt.
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My ideal would be to hop both sides of the Atlantic to work, as I'm sure every actor would.
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You look at somebody's work as an actor and you can see their emotional life being fed into it and you can kind of feel them through it.
