Actor Quotes

I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.

I did seven indies because the independent market used to be a lot better before all the stars were doing independents. As a beginning actor, that's where you started.

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.

I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it.

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience.

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

I've been lucky enough - well, maybe unlucky enough - to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups and downs. And for an actor, that's good. Life experience in any regard is good. So I've seen a lot and I've had my own experiences.

I've been wanting to go into music ever since I can remember. I mean even before I became an actor. I just thought it would be a tough field to break into, so I became an actor instead.

Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's three-Michelin's stars, there's no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.

What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.

Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed.

Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.

I'm a character actor.

Honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out.

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.

The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.

I just hate the idea of being well known. I know that is almost impossible if you're an actor who has done okay, but I've always fought against it.

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.

A totally healthy actor is a paradox.

I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.

When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Those two actors and that movie was my inspiration to want to be an actor.

One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.

I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor.