Actor Quotes

I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

I always had an actor within me.

You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft.

I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.

I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.

I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.

I think basically an actor is a salesman.

It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.

And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.

But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.

I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.

I think the guy who has had the better films is Will Smith. I don't know if he's a better actor than me. I don't think so. I am a rapper first. Man, I just love what I do. I am just the greatest and I can't help it. I'm sorry man.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes.

It was very natural that people just think of me as a comic actor.

If I wasn't an actor and I watched my films, I could easily be like 'This guy's a clown,' you know?

I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.

I'm just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor.

The last movie I did, I was very lucky: I got to work with probably the best actor of our era, Billy Bob Thornton. He's just incredible. I was like a sponge: I soaked up everything he had to say.

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile.

As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.

Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.

I'm a people's actor, not a critics' actor, and I always have been.

I've said this so many times but there's a magic when you have a really good actor in a really good makeup.

One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.