Actor Quotes
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I think, for me as an actor, if you get to a place where you're satisfied, you're happy with it, then you're dead. It's over. You're not hungry anymore. You won't try things anymore.
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I think every actor should direct at least once and vice versa.
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I hate the word celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm an actor.
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From the time I was a child, I wanted to be an actor.
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One of the best jobs for a mom is being an actor. I’m very fortunate that I work a lot, but there’s also a lot of down time. I’ve been really involved in my children’s education, doing stuff with their school.
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I mean, the great thing about being an actor is you can investigate parts of your brain that might have otherwise gone dormant.
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Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.
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I think... as an actor, you never want to overspeak about something because, frankly, you want people to be excited about it but still have relatively low expectations so that people will feel better about it.
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I always knew I wanted to be an actor. I was talented in college but not the most talented. But I knew I wanted to do it, and that intention got me there and kept me there.
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Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, “Wonderful. Just have a backup profession like welding.
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The only thing hard about being an actor is being out of work. So, when you get a job - that part ain't hard at all.
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A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor.
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Hardly any actor objects to press. It's a question of it being done in the way they like to see it done, meaning to get down to the serious interview what the profession is so we can reach out to the people to help them get along.
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That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.
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If I was just considered a looker and wasn't considered an actor, where would I be in 10 or 20 years from now?
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As an actor, your main goal is to tell the truth.
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I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.
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A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician.
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You're not just writing in a vacuum, and then handing it over to someone else to shoot. You're writing, and then getting feedback from the actor and hearing their voice and how they play things.
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I feel that where I came from made me the actor that I am, and I wouldn't want to trade that with anything else.
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My mother implanted in me as a young girl...you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's.
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If I don't have a script I adore, I do one I like. If I don't have one I like, I do one that has an actor I like or that presents some technical challenge.
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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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I'm a character actor. Nobody's ever seemed to think of me as a leading man. I'm 6'6''. I've got a big nose. I'm gangly. I've got crooked teeth. That's certainly not Brad Pitt. I'm still around and alive, so if they need older guys, I guess they're thinking of me.
