Actor Quotes
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Sometimes in the life of an actor you're not getting offered any jobs that speak to you. The trouble with acting is that you're only as good as your opportunities.
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Its such a process to get a show off the ground initially. And then, to already have a second season announced is a dream come true for any actor.
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I hate the word celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm an actor.
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I recognize my physical limitations, but I am an actor who is able to transform himself into someone else.
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I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the same - although with videogames it requires a lot of imagination.
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For some time, I thought being a producer would be a more fulfilling career than being an actor. But then I went to a conference in Cannes with 300 other producers, all desperately chasing finance for their projects... and realized being an actor wasn't so bad after all!
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I find human behavior really interesting. I think that's ultimately what being an actor is. You explore what it means to be human.
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A worldly actor is a better actor. It sounds pretentious, but I think having these experiences can translate back into your work.
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To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.
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I try to be a good, diligent actor.
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Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.
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I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.
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I never think about awards or anything like that when I do a job. I was first named a best actor when I was 12 years old and it doesn't really mean anything when you get down to it, because there is no best. I don't get all that involved. My chest puffs up as much as I can puff it up but I am not trying to be better than the person I am acting with. I am trying to be at least as good. That's how it works.
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I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and 25 percent actor, but I can well see the day when the reverse could be true.
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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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It's always a pleasure to see John. I'm fond of telling people that when I was a young actor in NY and had no work ,no money, you know the story because you're heard it before.
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Like any other actor, I want to work with good directors, and I always look for good scripts. I've had to say no to some people; I suspect that's the reason I'm called arrogant.
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It was like there's got to be some way to stay working and stay productive in Los Angeles. TV is that kind of thing for an actor. Unless you get stuck in one of these shows where you have to go to Vancouver.
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I'm never going to be the lead actor guy. I'm real quiet and real happy and real fortunate to keep working. It's what I do. It's like the circus. I ran away and joined it a long time ago.
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I think people only have so much interest in anybody, and if you barrage them in between the times you have something to offer them you become a personality rather than an actor - much more short-lived. I only work once a year. And that's enough.
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The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.
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I couldn't have ever married an actor. They have a childishness carried into an age when maturity should have set in.
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I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor.
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Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.
