Actor Quotes

The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor.

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

It's actually really great to be a student and an actor, because I get to do this job that I love, then just when I think my head might explode, I get to go to school where they don't really care about what magazine cover I'm on.

I became an actor because I couldn't not.

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor.

Meryl Streep's brilliant, just brilliant. I've been fortunate to do two movies with Meryl. And for an actor to go moment to moment like she does, there's no one better. And she dances between moments. Each take is different because she's riding instincts, she's riding impulses. And she trusts that.

No actor ever forgets a role, so I should have realized something was wrong.

I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.

Well, I think that there is a connection between being a lawyer and a doctor and an actor. They kind of, in some ways, have the same appeal, I suppose.

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

If you're not a real chameleon of an actor and if you're not one of those guys who can really shape-change themselves all the time, one of the ways to keep pushing yourself and keep changing is to be in different kinds of movies.

When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.

In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.

It's a miracle to be an actor and to know that you have a job to go to a year from now is a rare thing, so I think peace of mind and financial stability come with that. Hopefully I'm a little wiser and have a little more perspective in my life than I did then.

I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.

My father was king of the guidebooks and our holidays were always planned, taking us from a great gallery to an ace cafe to a beautiful view. And as an actor, I loathe improvisation because there's no structure and no one knows what's going on.

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

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.