Actor Quotes

All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.

There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.

Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part.

Some people are born gardeners, some are politicians. I was an actor. It took a great deal of pain before I figured that out. I didn't relate to most of it.

The actor is in the hands of a lot of other people, over which he has no control.

With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head.

I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.

If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.

Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.

I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.

Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity.

The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.

It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor.

In terms of 'American Horror Story' and 'Nashville,' what attracted me to those, and 'Friday Night Lights,' for that matter, is that they felt like something innovative and something that we hadn't seen before. As an actor, that's exciting.

It's definitely nerve-racking to be the center of attention. I'm not the kind of an actor that just craves attention 24-7 - but it's part of the deal. You're the leader on the set.

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was.

Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.

I don't really think of myself as an actor.

The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up.

I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.

As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with where you are in life and career, and I'm very comfortable with what I'm doing - working on projects I'm proud of.

When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.

TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I'm the kind of actor that needs to be pushed and have someone on my case a little bit, so I suffer from that.

I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will.

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

I don't do stunts and I don't think many actors do. For an actor to say they do their own stunts I don't think is very respectful of the profession of stunt men and women.

I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.