Actor Quotes

I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it.

You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers.

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.'

The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.

And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.

I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.

A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers - not just as people delivering this base service, but giving their clients spiritual help. It's almost like being an actor, playing a different part for each trick.

Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.

When not much is happening and there seems to be nothing you can do to change that, you do wonder. But I am an actor, like it or not. I stuck with it and took what was offered.

I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short.

I'm essentially a jobbing actor. If I'm out of work, I'll be the back end of a donkey.

I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else.

I think that anybody who says 'This is the one way to go about being an actor' has probably not done a lot of professional work before.

There's some kind of actors that can radically change who they are from movie to movie. I've never really been that kind of actor. I enjoy changing the worlds that I'm in.

Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was.

It has given me an insight into what it's like as an actor to come into a show in the middle of a production and fit into a group that's already established.

When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible!

As I got older, with my work, I became aware of the responsibility of film, and I feel one of the best ways I can apply myself as an actor, is to go beyond movie stardom and celebrity.

Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves.

You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact.

I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.

This really should be kept secret, but you can learn a lot by watching the making-of DVDs. Every actor should do it. You figure out what you're dealing with.

Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.

You know, OJ was a really nice guy, and he knew his lines. He was nice to everybody on the set. He got to be a better actor, I thought, with every movie.