Actor Quotes

As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor.

It was actually a relief for me to play an actor who was scared, who didn't know where everything was, who didn't know what buttons to push, and for me to be able to play all that.

No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.

I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality.

I've actually always been interested in following a character more long term, but the only place to really do that as an actor is on a TV series.

For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.

When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.

I'm an actor, I'm not a politician.

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.

Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.

We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.

I don't have actor training myself.

It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.'

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.

I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.

I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do.

Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild.

Music always came first. I never set out to be an actor.

In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.

If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.

An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor.

I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've never had television in my home.

Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.

Acting is a craft, and you need to study to be an actor.

There's something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It's something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage.

I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!