Actor Quotes

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.

I want to be so strong as an actor that people wouldn't say... eh, that's Josh Lucas.

The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them.

I'm a rapper trying to be an actor.

I think any actor worth their salt wants to show as much versatility as they possibly can.

There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.

I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.

I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form.

As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I would get accosted by these guys begging me to play. They just want to take my money. They see me, think "actor" and see some easy money.

Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest.

You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.

You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else.

I've probably had more jobs than any other actor living.

Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she's a versatile actor.

I don't understand the actor who plays the same role from movie to movie. Maybe it's because I worked on long-running television when I was in my teens, and so the idea of playing the same role just bores me intensely. I'd rather not do it at all.

I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor.

I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.

I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work.

The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor.

That's why I don't understand why actors become arrogant and are completely unapproachable - because as an actor, the most valuable thing you can do is talk to people and hear their stories, because it'll all come in handy.

I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.

As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory although that has not been my whole life. That's been a part of it. I think a lot of people associate me with the west because of Sundance.

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?

But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don't want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So that's a big difference.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

I was a terrible actor. The analytical part of my mind never quite let go.