Actor Quotes

And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.

Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.

When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.

I just went into this business for laughs. I guess I don't mind being an actor so much now.

I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.

You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor.

As an actor, to play someone who's at war with himself, that's so interesting.

I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed.

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.

Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.

I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.

Basically, you're selling a world as an actor, right? I mean it's like any sales person: if you believe in your product, you know your product, you sell it a lot better.

Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.

I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way.

In live stage, the actor lives.

If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do.

Even when I was little, people would always ask me if I wanted to be a movie star, and I would always say, 'No, I just want to be an actor.'

Every actor wants to direct.

I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there.

Some of these things I saw in foreign films - African films, Cuban films - long before I decided to really go on this course as an actor. I started to think about what values I saw in those films that I wanted to bring to my projects.

My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think.

I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality.

I've always lived out of a suitcase. I was in a new city every three months. When I was a model, I traveled the world, and as an actor you're traveling from movie set to movie set. So I've never been in one place long enough for anything super-bad to happen.

I'm a character actor at heart.

To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.