Quotes About Actor

The word 'star' doesn't mean an awful lot to me. 'Good actor' and having the respect of one's peers means more.

As a director, what matters is how you penetrate the soul of the person in front of the camera and let the actor blur the boundaries between the character and the person themselves. In order to achieve that, I try to make people feel at ease, to be mindless of problems and be skinless and give everything to the camera.

It harms me when people say I am 'non-mainstream' or 'non-commercial' actor. I try to fight off such labels.

I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. But I think you can see that quality in every little kid.

God gave me an actor's role; I have done that well. God gave me now a political role, and I am 100 per cent sure I will perform that well.

If people perceive you as a good actor then they'll wish for you to be a good actor and they'll root for you when they watch you, but if you come out and you're going to clubs every night people don't root for you anymore.

I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!

The box office performance of a film is instrumental in an actor being perceived as saleable.

There's a perception in the industry that if the actor is not working or has taken a timeout, he or she has left the film circuit.

Public perception changes with every film. That's the best part of being an actor.

Public perception is obviously important to an actor's career.

I want to get into some television. There might be a perception about me being only a movie actor, you know, and there's this whole new sort of frontier opening up in that medium.

An actor's only perception is of their character, and they're looking at one piece. A writer is looking at the entire story. They're going to see things that the writer didn't see because they're only looking through their lens.

I don't think I'm misunderstood, but there is definitely a certain side of me that the press focuses on - my body, my hair, or who I'm dating - which has never really served me as an actor. It's served me in the commercial world, making money as a model, but the media perception has really hindered my acting career.

I want to try to help shift perceptions people may have of me as an actor.

There was a lot of struggle. People have different perceptions about you and sometimes looks also can limit you as an actor.

It is very essential as an actor to be a perfectionist and have a knack for doing different roles over a period of time to keep their fans entertained.

I have played some wonderful leading roles on stage and had the whole 'China Beach' years where I really played a leading man on that. That was a fun change for a character actor. But I'm perfectly happy going back to building my gallery of memorable character roles.

I was ecstatic when 'The Walking Dead' came along. Merle Dixon was so perfectly adapted for me.

I think a director is hugely responsible for the fate of a film, so if it does well, he should be appreciated. As an actor, I can only perform well or choose to work with a good director in a good film.

An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor.

When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.

You act in a movie, and at the end of the day, the director and editor decide what your performance is.

I just love being in front of the camera making people laugh, cry, entertaining them. It's the 'nasha' of performance that I enjoy. It's my calling, and I'm blessed to be able to do that for a living.