Actor Quotes

Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal.

I've been on jobs where there's that one actor who is just a miserable, miserable no-good, dirty bastard, and it just turns the whole process sour.

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies. There's always the little guy who's the sidekick to the tall, good-looking guy who gets the girl.

I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.

That's the only way to do it. Just like an actor. You can get a great performance if you do a bunch of takes and edit it. You find the moments and string them together.

As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly.

I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor.

'The New York Times' thing... I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.

There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want.

I want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor.

To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.

I'm an actor, so sometimes there are moments where I think about everything that's happening and I want to cry. I'm doing what I love and I will be doing it for a very, very long time - and it's amazing. A lot of people don't get to do that.

An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.

I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.

The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.

Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.

I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.

You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor.

A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.

The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.

That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.

In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.

I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.

I wanted really to make it moment to moment, partly because I'm an actor and that's how I operate - actors are all about creating the moment.

There's no way that I could be the president. You can't have a pacifist in the White House... I'm an actor. This is what I do for a living.

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies.

You are always damned by things that you do well as an actor.