Actor Quotes

The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully.

For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.

I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.

I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.

I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.

I am still seeking to become firmly established as an actor.

As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.

As an actor, you may do things that aren't politically correct. Unless you're an actor who only does things for political reasons. I believe if we don't do the good, bad, and the ugly, we're not going to progress.

To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It's kind of a life-changing experience. But it can't get better than this for any actor - this is like an opera.

Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

I'm just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you're not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor's world, it can eat you alive.

Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.

If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.

Well, I think any actor can probably identify with being a professional liar. You don't always look at yourself that way, but I know a lot of days I do.

The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.

Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can.

I don't like to repeat myself as an actor.

Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!

In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical.

Playing a robot is possibly the most difficult role you can have as an actor, because you have to take all your innate emotional responses and completely suppress them. Even the way you walk is affected.

I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it.

Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself.

There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.

There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.

When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.

One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.

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