Actor Quotes

If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?

So to answer your question, I'm not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake.

I always think that I'm the best thing in a lot of bad movies. Personally, I have to. I think that I like me as an actor.

As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.

For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.

I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't.

One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.

As a model you do play a certain role and you know as an actor you play another role.

It's no fun to be a struggling young actor. It's a desperate thing, no way to be happy. If you have any alternative, you should take it.

I'm still waiting to hit it big. But there was the moment when I didn't have to work at the restaurant anymore, which is the milestone for every actor. When your job is just to be an actor and not to have to do anything else.

You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's publicist told USA Today that the actor has not ruled out running for governor of California, saying that he will make a decision soon. Reportedly Arnold needs that time to learn how to pronounce "gubernatorial."

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.

As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role.

I'm a method actor.

Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn't want. 'Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something.

I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.

And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.

Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.

When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.

I just went into this business for laughs. I guess I don't mind being an actor so much now.

I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.

You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor.

As an actor, to play someone who's at war with himself, that's so interesting.

I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed.

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.

Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.