Quotes on Actor

Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.

Author: F. Abraham

Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.

Author: F. Abraham

I'm a very proud actor.

Author: F. Abraham

I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don't win, I'll just wait until I'm nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?

Author: Alan Alda

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Author: Fred Allen

There isn't a switch that I turn on. I'm an actor. This is what I do.

Author: Anthony Anderson

Some of these guys... I've worked with Ice Cube, I think he's an immensely talented rapper and actor.

Author: Anthony Anderson

Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.

Author: Anthony Anderson

There's editing, and scripts to read and edit, and casting, and all the elements of production that just sort of take up the normal downtime that you would have as an actor. So there's not a lot of that for me.

Author: Richard Anderson

One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.

Author: Wes Anderson

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

Author: Desi Arnaz

To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.

Author: Leon Askin

A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak.

Author: Leon Askin

I was not a trained actor.

Author: Frankie Avalon

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise.

Author: Lauren Bacall

We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.

Author: Jillian Bach

Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.

Author: Sebastian Bach

As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.

Author: Kevin Bacon

A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

Author: Kevin Bacon

There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.

Author: Kevin Bacon

There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep.

Author: Kevin Bacon

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.

Author: George Baker

An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.

Author: Christian Bale

Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves.

Author: Christine Baranski

You are always damned by things that you do well as an actor.

Author: Christine Baranski

I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.

Author: Joseph Barbera

This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it can't be.

Author: Javier Bardem

An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor.

Author: Javier Bardem

An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.

Author: Lawrence Barrett

I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed.

Author: Lionel Barrymore

I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.

Author: Sean Bean

I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public office without being an actor.'

Author: Warren Beatty

Mel is a great director because he's not just a director, he's an actor, so he knows how to direct actors. I loved working with him. He's great as a director. He's so intelligent. He's generous. I really loved him.

Author: Monica Bellucci

We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?

Author: Annette Bening

Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours.

Author: Julie Benz

I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders.

Author: Tom Berenger

The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.

Author: Steven Berkoff

I was an actor before becoming a comedian.

Author: Shelley Berman

The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.

Author: Sarah Bernhardt

Every actor wants to direct.

Author: Theodore Bikel

I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone.

Author: Theodore Bikel

I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.

Author: Juliette Binoche

I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.

Author: Jane Birkin

I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

Author: Orlando Bloom

Angelina wanted to make sure that any fighting in the movie would be comparable to any male actor. Everything from stick fighting to horse riding was real to her.

Author: Jan Bont

You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor.

Author: John Boorman

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.

Author: Edwin Booth

In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.

Author: Barry Bostwick

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

Author: Bruce Boxleitner

In live stage, the actor lives.

Author: Peter Boyle

I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent.

Author: Peter Boyle

You can keep yourself alive. That's the magic of being an actor.

Author: Sonia Braga

As an actor you have one great fear: pimples!

Author: Jonathan Brandis

The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.

Author: Marlon Brando

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.

Author: Marlon Brando

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

Author: Marlon Brando

Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.

Author: Wilford Brimley

What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it.

Author: James Brooks

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.

Author: Louise Brooks

If it's something that reaches out and grabs me, I want to do it. I have a lot of trouble doing things that don't grab me. So, I'm not a very good actor in that way. I can't fake it.

Author: Clancy Brown

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

Author: Amanda Burton

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.

Author: Tim Burton

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

Author: Steve Buscemi

The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.

Author: Steve Buscemi

I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor.

Author: Sophia Bush

TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I'm the kind of actor that needs to be pushed and have someone on my case a little bit, so I suffer from that.

Author: Rose Byrne

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

Author: Nicolas Cage

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.

Author: Nicolas Cage

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

Author: Michael Caine

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

Author: Orson Card

Every actor I think has got their own number of takes that they like, you know. Some actors like to go all day, you know on the one scene and some actors want to take two takes. I personally like four.

Author: Robert Carlyle

You're looking at an actor whose price has just doubled.

Author: Art Carney

You know, for an actor to come into the midst of that, it's - It can either be difficult and somewhat unnerving, or it can be very embracing and like, kind of stepping into a nice hot tub.

Author: Keith Carradine

When you get all this stuff on and you put on the guns and the hair, it has an effect on the actor. It tends to lend a certain something to the way you feel as you're just walking around looking that way.

Author: Keith Carradine

Jason Lee is the most famous actor from Hawaii I can think of.

Author: Tia Carrere

I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.

Author: Helena Carter

It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying.

Author: Helena Carter

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.

Author: David Caruso

I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.

Author: Kim Cattrall

I didn't want to be an actor.

Author: James Caviezel

I felt unworthy to play Jesus. I just accepted the responsibility and said, 'What actor wouldn't want to play this role?'

Author: Jim Caviezel

A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do.

Author: Michael Chiklis

I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.

Author: Thomas Church

As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.

Author: Thomas Church

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

Author: Patricia Clarkson

I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.

Author: John Cleese

Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

Author: Montgomery Clift

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

Author: George Clooney

I'm an actor, that's my contribution.

Author: Glenn Close

As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.

Author: Glenn Close

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

Author: Jean Cocteau

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.

Author: Stephen Collins

I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.

Author: Bill Condon

Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.

Author: Sean Connery

To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.

Author: Jackie Cooper

Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day.

Author: Rob Corddry

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

Author: Alex Cox

I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern.

Author: Peter Coyote

Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.

Author: Russell Crowe

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.

Author: Kieran Culkin

I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.

Author: Macaulay Culkin

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

Author: Jamie Curtis

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.

Author: Cyril Cusack

One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned.

Author: Willem Dafoe

I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor.

Author: Charles Dance

You have to be selfish to be an actor.

Author: Charles Dance

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards.

Author: Hugh Dancy

I get a little jealous of these actor boys. They walk into a club, and in two seconds flat there are swarms of girls who are wanting so badly to touch them or just say hello. That's not the case with me, or any other girl I know.

Author: Claire Danes

I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.

Author: Jeff Daniels

I feel a little guilty only being an actor.

Author: Blythe Danner

I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force.

Author: James D'arcy

I just did something on a show on UPN called "Girlfriends" that will be on television in February. I am actually a much better actor today than I was in 1996, believe it or not.

Author: Christopher Darden

I realized that I needed to be anonymous on the street and somebody else on the stage. I had tried to put my street self on the stage, but what they want is an actor on stage.

Author: Bobby Darin

I've wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little boy.

Author: Henry Darrow

Actually, I wanted to be an actor when I was two years old.

Author: Keith David

Commercial jobs are pretty easily adjustable because they only take a few hours to complete, which is one of the reasons they are a Godsend to the actor.

Author: Thayer David

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.

Author: Bette Davis

Marlon Brando said any guy can become an actor. It takes a real man to quit.

Author: Clifton Davis

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

Author: Bruce Davison

Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part.

Author: John Deacon

To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

Author: James Dean

Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

Author: James Dean

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.

Author: Catherine Deneuve

Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.

Author: Catherine Deneuve

To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored.

Author: Catherine Deneuve

It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor.

Author: Catherine Deneuve

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.

Author: Johnny Depp

When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.

Author: Bruce Dern

I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.

Author: Laura Dern

Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken.

Author: Ajay Devgan

The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.

Author: Leonardo DiCaprio

Being a working actor, you're going to do a Spelling show. It's hard not to.

Author: Casper Dien

If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero.

Author: Vin Diesel

It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle.

Author: Matt Dillon

I'm a ballplayer, not an actor.

Author: Joe DiMaggio

The thing about Canada is, you're not really considered a Canadian actor unless you do something with the CBC.

Author: Lexa Doig

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

Author: Richard Donner

How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?

Author: Richard Donner

In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.

Author: Richard Donner

But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.

Author: Vincent D'Onofrio

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

Author: Vincent D'Onofrio

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

Author: Michael Douglas

If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes.

Author: Brad Dourif

I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor guy.

Author: Robert Downey, Jr.

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.

Author: Griffin Dunne

As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.

Author: Griffin Dunne

As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.

Author: Sanjay Dutt

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

Author: Sanjay Dutt

The thing is, the studio then forget that you're an actor and that you can do other things, and so since they pay you for that, they don't want you to do anything else.

Author: Charles Dutton

Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn't have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab.

Author: Charles Dutton