Actor Quotes

Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.

You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.

I watched movies and thought, 'I want to be in movies,' and wanted to be an actor.

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.

As a fortysomething actor, you reach a plateau of maturity from which you can really get stuck in.

It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - and it's flattering and all, but attention was never my big goal. I just like to work and have a good time.

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

I think people are starting to think of me less as an actor and more as a writer.

Mostly, I have to say as an actor, to find a character that's been rich enough for 10 seasons of shows... that's very rare.

As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath.

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.

Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director.

I'm identified as a New York actor, I sound like I'm from New York, and I couldn't be more proud of it.

I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun.

I see my face in the mirror, and I said, 'No, my ambition is not to be an actor.'

I would hate to be 65 and think, 'What if I had tried to be an actor?'

The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.

There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.

I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

I've been a very lucky actor.

As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot 'til they make me quit.

Here's what I knew about doing a play: I knew it would make me a better actor.

I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.

I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.

I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love.

Ultimately, however, the script an actor enlivens is someone else's words.

The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that.

The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.