Actor Quotes

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.

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.

You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.

I watched movies and thought, 'I want to be in movies,' and wanted to be an actor.

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.

They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul.

It's important to do research. I do that in every play, every actor does.

But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.

I've always tried to be an actor who... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me.

I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it.