Quotes About Actor

There was never any career plan. When 'Red Dwarf' started I thought we were doing a curious little sitcom on BBC2, I didn't think I was becoming an actor. I didn't see that 21 years later I'd still be talking about it, let alone filming a new one. For me everything's always been an accident.

Sitcom hours are silly easy compared to drama. Whenever an actor on a sitcom complains, I feel like smacking them!

My daughter recommended Chris O'Dowd to me after seeing him in 'Bridesmaids,' so I watched that and his sitcom, 'The IT Crowd.' When I was over in London, we met up, and I knew immediately he was the right person.

I do think - I always tell that to young people - go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don't try to learn how to act in front of millions and millions of people. Don't make that your first ambition, to be on a sitcom or get into the movies. Learn who you are as an actor, and the best way to do that is to do it in front of an audience.

Because I am a character actor, I thought I would be the fourth or eighth banana on a sitcom, and that would be OK.

I couldn't see myself doing a traditional sitcom.

I've never done anything like 'Brotherhood' before. It was a great challenge to take up a part in a live audience sitcom - it was amazing.

I was genuinely shocked to even be in the frame for a sitcom role on British TV.

I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.

Definitely for myself, I find myself gravitating towards dramatic work. In terms of sitcoms, you know, I always tell my agent I don't want to be seen.

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence.

I'm an actor; I have an ego that is sometimes disproportionate to the reality of the situation.

Everyone has the opportunity to do a horror film. There's something great about it as an actor. You have to go to places you'd normally never go and be put in situations you would never be put into. You don't get the opportunity in a lot of films to have this kind of acting. It's an interesting challenge.

My father was a busy man who would do six to seven films a year.

I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon.

As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.

The sixth Harry Potter film - I don't like my performance in that film at all.

My central strength as an actor is the fact that I'm 6 foot 3. A certain power emanates from my size, juxtaposed with the fact that I try to find an element of sensitivity in every character I play. People enjoy seeing that because it goes against what we're led to expect as far as the way men are supposed to be - macho and all that.

I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to fill it out.

To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor.

I definitely knew I wanted to be an actor in high school. I was doing plays and musicals, and I loved 'Saturday Night Live' and thought that was what I wanted to do - funny sketches and comedies. So I knew then, but I didn't know how to go about it, but I found my way.

I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you're an actor you want to write a book to exploit your celebrity, but my celebrity is only a byproduct of me making movies. I have no intention of being a celebrity.

I'm a character actor; that's my skill set.

Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.