Actor Quotes

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.

Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him.

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor.

I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.

When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

I think if you're an actor you kind of have to be willing to look stupid.

I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on my career as an actor and taking time out for my husband and family help to cushion a lot of the blows.

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual!

The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.

I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge me as an actor. I want to be an actor - it's my aspiration - so I want to do other films. I want to write something and I want to direct something!

I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.

There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a great actor who's never done this kind of role before and is hungry to do it. They're testing themselves every day. They want to get out of their trailer and get to work.

It wasn't a mission to be a rock star. It wasn't a mission of mine to even be a movie star. I just intended to be a good actor.

The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.

I did seven indies because the independent market used to be a lot better before all the stars were doing independents. As a beginning actor, that's where you started.

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.

I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it.

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience.

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

I've been wanting to go into music ever since I can remember. I mean even before I became an actor. I just thought it would be a tough field to break into, so I became an actor instead.

I've been lucky enough - well, maybe unlucky enough - to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups and downs. And for an actor, that's good. Life experience in any regard is good. So I've seen a lot and I've had my own experiences.

Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's three-Michelin's stars, there's no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.

What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.

Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed.

Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.