Actors Quotes

As an actor, or as a person, I like to do things that are challenging.

As an actor, you always want to do the juicy stuff. But, it's important to get the levels right.

I'd see child actors and I'd get so jealous, because they're just completely wide open.

I had always wanted to be on TV; my mom told me that when I was little, I told her I wanted to be a 'modeler,' because that's what I called actors on TV.

People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again after I was 16.

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.

I didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor.

I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.

There are dedicated actors and there are people now who only stay famous for putting on weight, losing it, then putting it on again.

Actors always loved props and-so instead of a hat or an umbrella, they feel really comfortable with a cigarette as a prop.

In the olden days, of course, cigarette companies would pay to have their product advertised in movies and to have actors smoke cigarettes.[Ronald Reagan used to do it.]

All actors almost always try to steal some of their wardrobe.

I'm an actor that cares.

I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me mad because they didn't look right.

Actors are journeymen. We show up for work. We do the job and then we go. What goes on behind the scenes is what goes on behind the scenes.

I think of being an actor as a blue-collar profession.

Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far.

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.

When I interview somebody, I look at their resume to see what they've done, who they've worked with, and how many times. If they've gotten repeat work. Those are the kinds of actors I want to hire.

As an actor, you get humbled all the time. Everyone is a critic.

That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about.

I have no regrets, except perhaps one: I should have tried harder to be a better actor.

Once you've been booked, people in Hollywood say, 'Oh he must be good.' All the while you're the same actor.

There are a lot of times where actors can be a little precious sometimes, and then it's difficult to put them in a situation where there is true hardship.

I knew from the time I could walk that I wanted to be an actor.

An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor.

I trust the [series] writers when I'm filming, because it's interesting for me to go in every week and see what's going to happen, and the challenge for me as the actor is to make it work.

I think, at the end of the day, if youre a good actor, then youre a good actor.

When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.

I love theatre. I think it's the home of most actors...most actors start with it. It's so enjoyable to do and to be able to see your audience. And the process of theatre is great.

I love to improvise, but I always thought "Man, it's like the final frontier for improvisational actors, to really go for something emotional, something that's not just chasing the laugh."

I'm not of the manor born; I've never felt entitled in that way. I just came to Hollywood to be an actor. All that lifestyle stuff is something to be managed.

I've always called myself a writer/performer, not an actor because I basically write what I perform.

You scratch a preacher a little bit, and you'll get an actor.

I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that.

No, actors go out with actresses as a form of self-flagellation.

I just love the process of working with other actors.

One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.

If you cast the picture correctly, you have a whole lot of leeway. You can make mistakes in other aspects but pull it off with the right actors.

I don't have actor training, myself.

It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.

I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me.

When you have two people that good in a movie, I think it adds a class and a feeling of importance for other actors that they want to be involved.

I'm not gonna be one of those actors who's like, "It's such a drag to not see your kids." Of course it is, but that's the compromise that you're making.

Directors, like actors, get typecast. And because I've had great success with comedy and horror and TV shows, that's basically what I'm kind of offered.

The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

Got through it without fluffing, that's the main thing any actor can hope for.

I think as you mature as an actor things open up to you in a lot of ways, especially if you do work on yourself.

I'd be terrified even now for a Latin kid wanting to be an actor, but back then? Forget it. They must have thought I was going to be working in restaurants and driving cabs for the rest of my life.