Actor Quotes

You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.

Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.

So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?

In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.

Actor's life is very long.

There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.

Being an actor you have a lot of expenses.

If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.

As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career.

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.

I just did something on a show on UPN called "Girlfriends" that will be on television in February. I am actually a much better actor today than I was in 1996, believe it or not.

I'm happy being an actor, it's what I have always wanted to do. I'm just lucky I got to do it so early.

A lot of people are surprised to hear that an actor studied for two or three years. They take the craft for granted and wanna just wake up and be an actor.

I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?

Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's.

I mean, its hard to be an actor in the city - trying to make it as an actor - because you waitress all night, you get home really late and you're super tired and your feet hurt.

I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.

I'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that Christopher Guest, Phil Hartman, Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness are comedic actors. And Dan Aykroyd, too. Those are my heroes.

When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself.

I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. But I think you can see that quality in every little kid.

I don't know one actor that became an actor for healthy reasons.

On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that.

No matter how many people tell you, Save your money, when you've got a series, you never do. Somehow it doesn't seem important. Maybe it's because you've been without money for so long as an actor.

I didn't come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don't want to be considered a cool actor - I want to be a great actor.

I think the education I've had as an actor I would never have had at university.

As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.

From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman.