Actor Quotes

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!

I just loved the whole idea of being an actor.

I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there was a bunch of them at once.

I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.

You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.

I don't think I can call myself an actress yet. I just don't think my skill level is that high. I hope that with every job it gets better. But until I'm good, I can say I'm trying to be an actor, but I don't think I've completely made it.

I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.

I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.

I am a really writer-oriented actor.

There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.

Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered.

The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.

I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.