Actor Quotes

You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there.

I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.

I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.

When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

I have never had trouble with any actor being able to visualise things. They are amazing. As long as you have your monster head on a long stick, so you can hold it up there and you can wave it around and let them see it and explain it to them, they are just great.

I feel that I am a good actor.

I'm a physical type of actor and love projects in which I can get physical. The more action, the better.

The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incredible actor, and he had a lot of charisma. Handsome, action, you know, everything was there. I loved Bruce Lee.

What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.

I was very conscious of the actor; watched what he did.

A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies.

A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what you want to do.

It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.

Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.

Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.

I think I've always had that bird's-eye view of myself. I think it's an actor trait... Sometimes it's best just to get lost out there, but other times you have to be aware of where the light's hitting you.

I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.

I wasn't an actor. They they take the externals. Here I was, a kid thrown into Hollywood with a brand-new name, starring in motion pictures.

You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.

Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.

So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?

In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.

Actor's life is very long.

There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.

Being an actor you have a lot of expenses.