Actor Quotes

I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.

My favorite actor is Wallace Beery.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.

There's a personal me, there's an actor me and there's a star me.

I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words.

Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

I became an actor by accident.

I think every actor should go back and do theater periodically.

As an actor, you're always at the service of somebody else's vision. In a play, it's more of the director's vision, and he or she's got their hands on you all the way up to opening night, and if it's a film, there are even more people.

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.

I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself.

I like to consider myself an actor who just happens to be Hispanic.

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

If you're an actor, there's going to be a sense of fantasy about yourself, especially in the celebrity world we live in today. You give the illusion of being in control, sexy, at ease, with never a difficult moment. Those are the basic lies that all celebrities tell. For me, they're the more dangerous lies to come to terms with.

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.

My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.

You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.

I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act.

The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see a film actor going to do a soap.

When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.

As you know, Hollywood loves to pigeonhole all the actors and actresses, and suddenly I got 're-pigeonholed' as an action actor.

I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.

As an actor you have one great fear: pimples!

I guess you can say that every actor is a 'character actor' on some level. But I think some actors have a wider range. I think that's how you get that mantle.

The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.