Actor Quotes
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What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.
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Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.
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I'm just an actor who happened to love these [Marvel] comics when I was a kid, and got to rediscover them.
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I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?
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The basic skill of an actor is, in fact, empathy, and that's maybe not a skill, it's a disposition. I am an assistant storyteller. I enjoy feeling useful to a team effort. It's my way of finding a use for myself, a utility in this world.
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Any actor who's onstage... at least this is what I do... I'm always using 120% on whatever the heck I'm doing. I have to make an impression with all the bursts of things I do in this show... taking the picture, shutting the door, opening the door... as long as I'm making people laugh at those moments, I feel like I'm accomplishing something.
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Whatever it is that you are doing as an actor, if it frightens you, if you're scared of it, you need to do it.
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I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you don't recognize someone because they're so lost in the part.
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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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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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To be a good actor, you need to be able to emote with your body.
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It's awesome when people even notice that I'm an actor.
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I fled my home town and did odd jobs, including things like re-designing old furniture, before I became an actor. Having said that, I don't think the story of my life is in any way remarkable. What is remarkable is how acting opportunities have come my way.
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I'm just a very fortunate actor who has not been typecast.
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I'm still interested in perfecting whatever talents I have and continuing to grow as an actor and continuing to be useful to the telling of the story.
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I think that of musicals - especially the big, splashy ones - require an actor that's also part cheerleader, too, and that's really tough to do if it's not something that really grabs you and your heart's not in it.
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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.
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I try to be a good, diligent actor.
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I still don't think I'm a good actor. The only reason I'm doing it is because I've got a lot of support behind me.
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I have been very lucky for most of my adult life to be working as an actor.
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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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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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When you're an actor and you walk into a theatre where your movie is playing, you're kinda proud. "Look at my skill!"
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The actor is not quite a human being-but then, who is?
