Actor Quotes

I came out wanting to be an actor. From my first view of the world, that's what I wanted to be. I'm made of 99 percent ham and 1 percent water. I was just cooked that way!

But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.

I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.

I'm a much better singer than actor, which doesn't really say a whole lot.

I'm at least getting my foot in the door as far as doing straight dramatic parts, which no one would have ever considered me for in the '80s. I never objected to that because I love doing comedy, and I'm not the kind of actor that insists that unless you're doing a serious dramatic role, you're not acting.

Other actors like to rehearse on film-they like 30 or 40 takes. When you get an actor like that, it becomes difficult for me because I'm ready to quit after number two.

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.

I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted.

The actor's life is the road. Always has been, always will be. That is his cross and his glory.

You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.

I know certainly, when one job draws to a close, that I feel I'm simply never going to work again. No one will ever want me for anything ever again. I think that's a vulnerable moment in every actor's life, and it happens every time you finish a film.

I didn't feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people's fingerprints all over that aspect.

I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.

Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable.

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.

I did well as an actor in Australia, and then Paramount invited me over... to have a look at me.

As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that.

I have considered myself a mature actor.

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.

I feel like everything you learn as an actor growing up is wrong. You're supposed to hit your mark, find your light and know your lines. Those are all things that just make things wooden, dull and boring.

I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.

I never thought about being an actor.

Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.

In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house.

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

I think as an actor you want to keep being challenged.

I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.