Actor Quotes

Acting is a craft, and you need to study to be an actor.

There's something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It's something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage.

I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!

I just loved the whole idea of being an actor.

I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there was a bunch of them at once.

I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.

You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.

I don't think I can call myself an actress yet. I just don't think my skill level is that high. I hope that with every job it gets better. But until I'm good, I can say I'm trying to be an actor, but I don't think I've completely made it.

I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.

I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.

I am a really writer-oriented actor.

There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.

Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered.

The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.

I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.

If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.

I was never a celebrity - just a working actor.

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.

My parents were involved in everything I did. They were showbiz people themselves. My dad was an actor. They were parents; they did what parents are supposed to do.

But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.

Every actor just wants good writing.

As an actor, my background is in the theater and I feel that my strong suit is period work, but I actually didn't do much of it at all, until the last three or four years. I'm loving it!