Actor Quotes

I'm an actor and this is a role I'm playing. But people can get wacky.

There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.

As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor.

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.

Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.

People always call me a comedian. And I don't really see myself like that. I guess I just consider myself an actor who does comedy. But who wants to do other things as well.

In terms of men I fancy, I think the actor James Franco is gorgeous. But I find it odd to be described as a sex symbol myself.

I want to be so strong as an actor that people wouldn't say... eh, that's Josh Lucas.

The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them.

I'm a rapper trying to be an actor.

I think any actor worth their salt wants to show as much versatility as they possibly can.

There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.

I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.

I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form.

As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I would get accosted by these guys begging me to play. They just want to take my money. They see me, think "actor" and see some easy money.

Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest.

You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.

You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else.

I've probably had more jobs than any other actor living.

Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she's a versatile actor.

I don't understand the actor who plays the same role from movie to movie. Maybe it's because I worked on long-running television when I was in my teens, and so the idea of playing the same role just bores me intensely. I'd rather not do it at all.

I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor.

I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappeared. And that was when I had to make the transition from fat character actor to thin character actor.

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

It's all about whatever enriches you. If you decide to go the domestic route and get married and all those things, it makes you a better actor.

What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.

We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.

I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich, and the other that wants to be an actor because they have to be. I'm more in the second group.