Actor Quotes

The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.

If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.

In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.

I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.

How can a president not be an actor?

I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.

As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect.

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

It used to be that you could do these nuggets of a movie and it would attach itself in terms of credibility to your work and the style of work that you did, that people would be interested and curious about you and your work as an actor.

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

Look at someone like Edward Norton. A truly phenomenal actor. He's definitely went to school and trained.

I'm much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they're dating or what clothes they're wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life.

Sean's a better person when he's directing. He becomes a queen when he's an actor. And he's so unhappy when he's acting.

I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality.

Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours.

It's not like suddenly, when you become a working actor all your friends are in the same situation. I have friends who are still handing out flyers for their one-woman show and trying to make ends meet.

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.

My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.

I do think I'm lucky I met Michael. Not just Michael Douglas the actor and producer with two Oscars on the shelf, but Michael Douglas, the love of my life. I really do think it was meant to happen.

I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.

It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your job to do something interesting enough to make them want to get inside the lead character's head.

When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an actor.

As an actor, you don't often get a chance to know exactly the impact of what the audience is seeing, even though you can ask where the frame is. A move that feels tiny can be huge, and vice versa.

Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.

Indeed I regard the enduring support which I have received over the years from all sections of the community in Ballymena as being more than sufficient recognition for any success which I may have achieved as an actor.