Actor Quotes

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

I know I walk a fine line between being a respected actor and being what they call a sex symbol.

I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.

Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.

The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama department, so the best thing for me to do was audition, help out, do carpentry, whatever it took to get me on that project.

We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?

The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.

There was never any career plan. When 'Red Dwarf' started I thought we were doing a curious little sitcom on BBC2, I didn't think I was becoming an actor. I didn't see that 21 years later I'd still be talking about it, let alone filming a new one. For me everything's always been an accident.

I'm a ballplayer, not an actor.

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.

I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.

Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. I just started doin' it in front of an audience and had to deliver.

Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.

I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable.

I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor or a serious actor, because those are really artificial classifications, I think.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

Now that was one thing, but from an actor's point of view, this poor young man, crying from the moment I opened the door to the moment he left. Now if an actor did that they would say he's over-acting.

I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.

All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.

There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.

Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part.

Some people are born gardeners, some are politicians. I was an actor. It took a great deal of pain before I figured that out. I didn't relate to most of it.

The actor is in the hands of a lot of other people, over which he has no control.

With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head.

I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.

If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.

Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.