Actor Quotes

The actor's life is the road. Always has been, always will be. That is his cross and his glory.

You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.

I know certainly, when one job draws to a close, that I feel I'm simply never going to work again. No one will ever want me for anything ever again. I think that's a vulnerable moment in every actor's life, and it happens every time you finish a film.

I didn't feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people's fingerprints all over that aspect.

I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.

Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable.

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

I did well as an actor in Australia, and then Paramount invited me over... to have a look at me.

As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that.

I have considered myself a mature actor.

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.

I feel like everything you learn as an actor growing up is wrong. You're supposed to hit your mark, find your light and know your lines. Those are all things that just make things wooden, dull and boring.

I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.

I never thought about being an actor.

Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.

In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house.

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

I think as an actor you want to keep being challenged.

I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.

I am an actor through and through.

I'm an actor first and foremost; it's my first love and passion.

I'm not going to say, I'm an actor and I'm changing the world. Who cares?

For an actor to have a role that they're recognized and remembered for over the years, it's unusual. It's very lucky if it happens once - and it's luck that it's happened to me a couple of times.

I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - 'I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!'

Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.

But you really - I always think that a director has got to adapt to whatever the needs of the actor are. You know, so if you take someone like Eddie Murphy, who is not a big fan of rehearsal. You know he comes out of stand-up. He comes - it's all about capturing the moment - in the moment, you know.

I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get a job. Just to get a job. Any job. Whatsoever. You don't think that people are going to see you in a certain way.

I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.