Actor Quotes

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.

It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.

I've never been pigeonholed and I've experienced so many different kinds of skin - what man will do and won't do, what you should do and shouldn't do. This is what's exciting about being an actor; where philosophy majors sit in classrooms or write books about human behavior, we're actually acting them out in front of cameras.

Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.

I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it.

If you play a gay role, it sticks more than it does if an actor were to play a murderer or a psychopath.

Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode.

Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.

When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors.

Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real.

I look for things that are going to challenge me as an actor.

As an actor, I am meant to dabble with different themes and genres.

Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor's careers not at all it doesn't matter.

It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker. I mean, not crazy-fast, but, you know, five or six pages a day is a nice pace.