Actor Quotes

Sometimes when an actor says something almost perfect, but you know you have to edit it, if you tell them to change something immediately, it will come out great.

I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way.

The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.

Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.

A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do.

Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.

I spent so many years of my life as a stage actor and when you do all these plays, a lot of really great plays are very politically driven. They deal with deep social issues, and that's the kind of stuff that I love, as an audience member.

I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Lost In Space movie. Doing this part is the highlight of my career. What a way to leave the profession!

I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.

My favorite actor is Wallace Beery.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.

There's a personal me, there's an actor me and there's a star me.

I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.

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.

If you're an actor, there's going to be a sense of fantasy about yourself, especially in the celebrity world we live in today. You give the illusion of being in control, sexy, at ease, with never a difficult moment. Those are the basic lies that all celebrities tell. For me, they're the more dangerous lies to come to terms with.

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.

My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.