Actor Quotes

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.

I was very conscious of the actor; watched what he did.

A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies.

A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what you want to do.

It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.

Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.

Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.

I think I've always had that bird's-eye view of myself. I think it's an actor trait... Sometimes it's best just to get lost out there, but other times you have to be aware of where the light's hitting you.

I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.

I wasn't an actor. They they take the externals. Here I was, a kid thrown into Hollywood with a brand-new name, starring in motion pictures.

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.