Actor Quotes

I'm identified as a New York actor, I sound like I'm from New York, and I couldn't be more proud of it.

I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun.

I see my face in the mirror, and I said, 'No, my ambition is not to be an actor.'

I would hate to be 65 and think, 'What if I had tried to be an actor?'

The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.

There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

I've been a very lucky actor.

As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot 'til they make me quit.

Here's what I knew about doing a play: I knew it would make me a better actor.

I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.

I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.

I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love.

Ultimately, however, the script an actor enlivens is someone else's words.

The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that.

The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.

I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.

I don't call cut between the takes - it's my way to help the actor keep focused. As soon as you say 'cut' you have 10 people jumping on them and everybody's trying to do a great job, and they do, but sometimes they forget that the more important thing is the performance, creating the performance.

Commercial jobs are pretty easily adjustable because they only take a few hours to complete, which is one of the reasons they are a Godsend to the actor.

I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I want to tell these stories and present these shapes, colors and movements as I see them, as I see them serve a narrative. As I see that narrative serve an audience. That's what I want to do.

Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.

I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards.

If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.

An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.

David was the kind of guy who was totally supportive of the actors and instructed the writing staff to trust the actor's instincts, since after all, it's the actors playing the character.

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

I'm just an actor, but if the extra part of it is that I'm helping people or people are being helped by the virtue of what we're doing, then that's just a really nice added extra.

I've got the best of all worlds. It's every actor's dream to wake up in New York City and go to an acting job rather than to a restaurant to wash dirty dishes. And I live so close to the studios that I ride my bike to work.