Actor Quotes

My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great schools that teach acting. NYU being one of them.

Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.

I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

I have been an actor for most of my life. When I started out, I didn't think about anything except what was good for me. Like many movie stars, I became all wrapped up in myself.

An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor.

One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.

The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.

I was not a trained actor.

I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.

I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself.

I didn't go into this business to do action because I'm a classically trained actor. But I'm good at kicking and punching.

When you have another actor as your boss, they understand how to communicate easier sometimes than just a writer.

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.

I've been training as an actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean, the college course is only four years! I absolutely trained.

I think I can work with any type of actor.

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.

You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.

I watched movies and thought, 'I want to be in movies,' and wanted to be an actor.

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.

As a fortysomething actor, you reach a plateau of maturity from which you can really get stuck in.

It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - and it's flattering and all, but attention was never my big goal. I just like to work and have a good time.

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

I think people are starting to think of me less as an actor and more as a writer.

Mostly, I have to say as an actor, to find a character that's been rich enough for 10 seasons of shows... that's very rare.

As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath.

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.