Quotes About Actor

I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.

You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.

Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time.

I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.

There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.

For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.

William Hartnell was one of the great unsung character actors of his time

It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything.

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God that'd be a boring career.

Calvin says somewhere that each of us is an actor on a stage and God is the audience. That metaphor has always interested me, because it makes us artists of our behavior

Mrs. Carbuncle had talked a great deal about "The Noble Jilt," and could boast that she had discussed the merits of the two chief characters with the actor and actress who were to undertake them.

Aeschylus first introduced a second actor; he diminished the importance of the Chorus, and assigned the leading part to the dialogue.

He was on a wildly successful TV show on Disney for two years (playing a singing possum), before hitting the big screen, playing everything from Captain Marvel, to a schizophrenic, to Alexander the Great, to a college kid with a crystal meth addiction. I don't know if he's a great actor, but he's great looking, so who cares.

I don't discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it can't be the ruling force of your life. You have to be the driver.

What an actor says is much, much less important than a life, so that's the great use for improvisation; you go, you find the life and then you add the words.

I'm not an actor, and I'll never call myself an actor. I've never thought of it as part of my life. I'll always be a singer, in my eyes.

Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician.

Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything.

Sure, I want to be the best actor in the world. But my life is my family, my son, my friends. I don't know how anyone can find fault with that.

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.

Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.

I've been on the stage my entire life as an actor.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty to interpret it his problem and to express it his dedication.