Actor Quotes

I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening.

I'm just back in line with every other actor looking for a job right now and keeping my fingers crossed.

The whole point about becoming an actor is variety and changing roles.

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.

The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor or a serious actor, because those are really artificial classifications, I think.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

Now that was one thing, but from an actor's point of view, this poor young man, crying from the moment I opened the door to the moment he left. Now if an actor did that they would say he's over-acting.