Quotes About Actor

And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.

I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.

I hope that I have gained the reputation of being someone that would do anything. I think that that's an admirable reputation to have if you're an actor.

So I made a request. I said to the writers, I have a minor request that I just want to play a loser.

Many times when you request an actor to do a film, they show respect to you, offer you coffee and nicely they will avoid you because maybe they don't trust you.

Honestly, I understand that as an actor I should be comfortable with playing different characters. I am also not degrading those actors who are part of stories that require intimate scenes, but as an actress, I wouldn't be doing any scene that requires smooching and making out.

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.

My role in 'Kashmora' required me to take horse riding lessons.

The day an actor is not required, the day no one is writing for you, is when you're actually dead... That's a very scary moment.

As an actor you should be able to store and recollect your experiences and work on them as an actor as and when required.

I am an actor and can perform any role depending on the requirement of the film. I have done several serious and multi-dimensional roles.

There's very little you could do to prepare to be a correspondent on 'The Daily Show,' because it's not being a journalist, it's not being an actor. It involves elements of both of those things, but they're not required necessarily as job experience. It's helpful if you know how to improvise, but again, not a requirement.

I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.

Intent to harm America is not required to make the mishandling of information criminal - it simply requires that the actor was grossly negligent.

If a movie requires the lead actor to spend a good chunk of his onscreen time talking to himself, and Popeye is unavailable because of contractual disputes, it's hard to do better than Johnny Depp.

One of my best and dearest friends in the world is this guy named Robert Burke, who was in 'Rescue Me.'

With any character I do, I do my due diligence with research.

I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.

Since his breakout role in 'Call Me By Your Name,' Chalamet has been described as a young Leonardo DeCaprio and James Dean. Not only does Chalamet resemble my son when he was younger, but he embodies his spirit.

I think a lot of people don't really understand. They call me a fat drag queen, which I resent, because I'm a character actor and a very good one.

While I feel that I have a great reservoir to draw from as an actor for lots of different roles, it is difficult because it can be an industry where it's people's jobs to thin-slice you really quickly and try to fit you into a niche in the market.

And I was very shy as a kid; if you sang me 'Happy Birthday,' I would cry. Quite shy. So the idea of being an actor, much less a model, was just out of this world.

There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.

I was living in New York City and flat broke. My next door neighbor was an actor and he always seemed to be having more fun than I was. He convinced me to give acting a shot, but because of my shyness I was sure it would be a lost cause.