Actor Quotes

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'

Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.

I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.

I've always felt that I would rather see an actor, writer, or musician's work, rather than actually know the person. If you know too much about an artist, it somehow lessens their ability to do their work as well.

I'm really an actor first. I'd love to do more straight plays.

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.

Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can.

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 found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

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.

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.