Actor Quotes

I'm an actor. I hate to blow everyone's illusions.

I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.

I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?

One of the strangest things about being an actor is that people you don't know feel that they are allowed to comment on your hair, body, clothes, relationships.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

I find there aren't that many options as an actor.

I don't know what it's like to be an actor, where if your show gets canceled, really you're just a bum.

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.

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.

However, I hope I am also judged on my accomplishments as an actor and not just on my pretty face!

I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an instrument that is constantly changing.

I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It's like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can't take that lightly.

You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.

Obama is a very good actor. He knows how to play it. And he is very adept at creating this 'Obama' - this character who is there whenever the world needs something.