Actor Quotes

The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.

An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as an actor you really bring things in.

In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

They had some really cool rigged cars and things that were different that they would tow behind the camera car that were actually on these trailers that manipulated side to side and stuff like they were getting hit, and actually put the actor right in the middle of the chase.

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.

My acting ability would have sent me back to the post office. It was my singing that got me jobs. Ironically, now, people think of me as an actor and don't know me much as a singer.

My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect.

I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.

I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.

I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.

What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows.

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

Bill Powell is the only intelligent actor I've ever met.

John Goodman is more that just a big guy, he's a wonderful actor.

I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.

I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.

When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.

I really need to work. People think that I'm no longer interested in acting and only interested in working with the animals. Obviously I have given that impression, but it is not how I feel. I think I'm a good actor. I think I look OK. I don't understand why I'm not working all the time.

There was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.

The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

I didn't grow up as child actor.

There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.

Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says.

The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'

A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.