Actor Quotes

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

I went from a guy, kind of a working actor, a supporting player, to magazine covers and being offered the studio pictures really quickly. Nobody was comfortable with it. I wasn't really comfortable with it.

I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there's a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political or cultural fabric of your country.

I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it.

Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.

I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.

Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.

You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there.

I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.

I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.

When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

I have never had trouble with any actor being able to visualise things. They are amazing. As long as you have your monster head on a long stick, so you can hold it up there and you can wave it around and let them see it and explain it to them, they are just great.

I feel that I am a good actor.

I'm a physical type of actor and love projects in which I can get physical. The more action, the better.

The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incredible actor, and he had a lot of charisma. Handsome, action, you know, everything was there. I loved Bruce Lee.

What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.

I was very conscious of the actor; watched what he did.

A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies.

A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what you want to do.

It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.

Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.

Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.

I think I've always had that bird's-eye view of myself. I think it's an actor trait... Sometimes it's best just to get lost out there, but other times you have to be aware of where the light's hitting you.

I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.