Actor Quotes

Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

I played cops and robbers and pirates and all the rest when I was a kid, but I didn't want to grow up and be an actor and play cops and robbers and pirates. I wanted to grow up and be that, be cops and robbers and pirates.

I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years.

That's one of the reasons I wanted to be an actor, to be like them. And there they were at my table, all talking about how nervous they were, about the lines, and so forth. No matter how big you get, you still have the same kinds of anxieties and so forth.

I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too.

I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.

No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take.

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.

It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized... It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to... In L.A., I'm just another character actor.

You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.

The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.

If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.

In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.

I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.

How can a president not be an actor?

I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.

As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect.

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

It used to be that you could do these nuggets of a movie and it would attach itself in terms of credibility to your work and the style of work that you did, that people would be interested and curious about you and your work as an actor.

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

Look at someone like Edward Norton. A truly phenomenal actor. He's definitely went to school and trained.

I'm much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they're dating or what clothes they're wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life.

Sean's a better person when he's directing. He becomes a queen when he's an actor. And he's so unhappy when he's acting.

I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality.

Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours.

It's not like suddenly, when you become a working actor all your friends are in the same situation. I have friends who are still handing out flyers for their one-woman show and trying to make ends meet.

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.

My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.