Quotes About Actor

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.

It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.

I love, love, love being an actor - it's still the hardest and scariest thing I do, outside of parenting. But I've always been someone who likes a busy day.

I want to become a Hollywood film star. I genuinely would love to be in some movies.

I've wanted recognition I wanted success I wanted appreciation I love the perks of being in the movies. I love the fame that comes with it - but that's why I became an actor.

I would have preferred someone else to have been in charge of rescuing this story, but once again life has taught me that my role is to be a witness, not the leading actor.

My father pretended to be reading his letters. He was a dreadful actor. 'Since when have you liked Wagner?

Nicholas, who had never seen the willingness to embrace septicemia as one of the more obvious qualities a young actor might find useful, jibbed at this robust assertion. "There.

A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long a comedy is played out by an incomparable actor.

As an actor, I have always felt, everything is available in the script. If there is anything you feel the script lacks, you can have a discussion with the director and point out those.

I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

I've always wanted to continue work as an actor in Hollywood. So being in a film with Lady Gaga is something I'm trying to get my head around. It's a fabulous dream honey, don't wake me.

My father started out as a riveter, but he had the soul of an artist. He worshiped Shakespeare and had aspirations to be an actor. He claimed that from the first day he laid eyes on me, I was going to be this great dramatic actress.

The camera caught me just by chance, in a fleeting movement in another actor's show reel. That's how I landed 'Ramayan.'

The only thing an actor can do is, whatever lands on the carpet in the hall, you read it, and if you can't put it down, that's the job to do.

My favorite cast member of 'Scandal' is Josh Malina.

As an actor, you need everything you can get to be truly scary and truly memorable.

Working with any senior actor is a learning experience, so getting to work with a thespian like Kamal Hassan was a memorable one.

When you have a meaty character to play opposite an actor you like, it becomes a memorable experience.

Sometimes a scene works and acting is the easiest thing in the world and you don't have to do much of anything - just enjoy yourself and listen to the other actor. When it doesn't work, then every actor has different ways of dealing with the impasse. Sometimes you use memories from the past. Whatever. It depends from job to job.

One of my earliest memories is my father telling me to behave because I'm about to meet and work with the greatest actor of all time. Then this old guy comes out and I was like, 'Pfff, he doesn't look anything like Luke Skywalker, I don't know what my dad is trying to tell me here.'

One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.

If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script... The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.

As an actor, one of my greatest fears is losing my memory.