Actor Quotes

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.

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.