Actor Quotes

I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.

One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won't hurt my career.

And costume is so important for an actor. It absolutely helps to get into character; it's the closest thing to you, it touches you. Some actors like to go into make-up and then put their clothes on, but I like to dress first; that's my routine.

I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.

All I am hoping for is to be able to work - I think my best work is still ahead of me - I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

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.