Quotes About Actor

As an actor just learning the craft, you literally do a scene with Jimmy Gandolfini, and you walk away a better actor.

I've probably had more jobs than any other actor living.

I really look up to people who experiment in all areas and I think Johnny Depp is a really good actor to look up to because he's done so many genres of films.

Johnny Depp is so special that he is like a Martian. In fact, that's what I call him, Martian.

I was expecting someone dark to play 'Dexter' - someone like Johnny Depp.

It was the '70s when mediocrity came in Hindi films. That's when the actor called Rajesh Khanna joined the industry. For all his success, I think Mr. Khanna was a very limited actor. In fact, he was a poor actor.

When I joined films, I was clueless about the industry and had no aspirations to be an actor.

I was going to be a Marine before I was going to be an actor. I was really serious about joining the Marine Corps.

I will also fulfill my profession commitments as an actor as I would not let the actor in me die after joining politics.

As an actor, it's always fun when you're able to feel like there's freedom to explore things and try out jokes and be funny.

I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think, 'Gee, there are a lot of good directors who could do that.' I'd like to do something only I can do.

In the theater the actor had uncertainty, broken promises, constant travel and a gypsy existence. In radio, if you were successful, there was an assured season of work. The show could not close if there was nobody in the balcony. There was no travel and the actor could enjoy a permanent home. There may have been other advantages but I didn't need to know them.

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

An actor's success has the life expectancy of a small boy about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.

Well physically preparing for the role, definitely and then continuing to stay physically fit throughout filming, getting up, 4.00 4.30 in the morning.

You can't be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.

As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor.

Thus the hypocrite may be said to be a player; and indeed the Greeks called them both by one and the same name.

Devia ter sido um palhaço. Isso ter-me-ia proporcionado o mais vasto campo de expressão. Mas subestimava a profissão. Se me tivesse tornado palhaço, ou até actor de vaudeville, teria sido famoso. As pessoas não me teriam compreendido, mas teriam compreendido que eu não era para ser compreendido. Isso pelo menos teria sido um alívio.

The fact that the human act is self-directed or built up means in no sense that the actor necessarily exercises excellence in its construction. Indeed, he may do a very poor job in constructing his act.

I took a cabbie to taxi court once. Years ago, this guy didn't want to take me to Brooklyn. Just refused. I explained that I would absolutely take him to Taxi Court because, see, I'm an actor and have pretty much nothing but free time.

I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler.

Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.