Actor Quotes
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I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public office without being an actor.'
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The most fundamental important thing for me as an actor is maintaining a sense of play. It's so important.
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Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.
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I'm no Method actor. I've tried staying in character, and it's just exhausting.
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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.
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I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.
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I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.
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Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
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I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.
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Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun.
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Rumours are a part and parcel of being an actor, and I am okay with that.
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There's absolutely no purpose for me ever to embarrass an actor by not getting the best possible performance. So, if it takes staying longer, then we'll staying longer and work through it.
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I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
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I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.
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The more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably.
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'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.
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I never really committed to being an actor. It never felt like it would be possible, I guess.
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I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
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One of the coolest things about being an actor is growing, and changing with everything, and never making the same decision twice because you've learned so much from the last project. I guess that's like in life. You keep moving through, and you hopefully learn from your mistakes and just get better and better all the time.
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My aunt was so attuned to commercials that she could always identify the voiceover actor.
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Even when I turn 60, they'll call me a child actor.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor. Then it became about whether acting wanted me. So, I gave it a shot. It hasn't worked out too bad, so far.
