Actor Quotes

I'm a character actor at heart.

To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.

I was never a part of the Actor's Studio, because two friends of mine started it in 1947 and by that time I'd gone to California.

It was one of the great chances in my life to become a Dumont actor.

I would love to have a part opposite a great actor - like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to work with a top director. That's my dream.

As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.

Actors are programmed to see the worst. If you're talking about an actor's TV series, you say, 'I loved you last night.' And they go, 'What about the week before?' They immediately worry.

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me, and he pulled out, so I got the role.

I think I can work with any type of actor.

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me.

I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.

Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.

One of the fun things as an actor is to find a character that if you were to look up a rap sheet about them, you might say, 'I don't really necessarily want to hang out with this guy' or 'I would never be this kind of guy in my life.' I think it's part of an actor's job to say, 'Maybe you could be.'

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.

I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

I get a little jealous of these actor boys. They walk into a club, and in two seconds flat there are swarms of girls who are wanting so badly to touch them or just say hello. That's not the case with me, or any other girl I know.

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.

I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, 'cos it's quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors.

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.

I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.

You can tell when an actor or actress cares about their work. It's really clear.