Quotes About Actor

Well, as an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.

When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.

I approach directing from an actor's standpoint.

The quality of television is becoming so good from an actor standpoint, where you get to do these amazing scenes with amazing directors and cinematography.

At the end, it's your movie and your performance that stands out. So if I am a good actor, and if am being part of good entertaining engaging films, audiences will like me.

I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think.

In the end, only a good actor stands out; if I am not a good actor, I won't stand out.

The role of a comedian is to go in and make something funny. That might be a situation where I'm writing, a situation where I'm in control, like standup or something of my own that I'm making, or it might be something like being an actor in someone else's project.

I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.

I thought I could see how standup worked. I never thought of being an actor - or anything else, really - but I thought, 'I can see how you get on stage and tell jokes.'

I like the idea of being the funny guy in the dramatic thing, playing a hit man with a weird sense of humor.

Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.

I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.

I'm not a conventional leading man at all and have no wish to be.

The only leading man I ever had a crush on was James Garner.

The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant.

My belief in God is responsible for what I am... How can I refuse to talk about something which is so much a prt of my life both as a man and as a actor?

I haven't aged into a character actor. I'm an old leading man.

I am a thespian trapped in a man's body.

I'm not a leading man. I'm a character actor. That's what I want to be.

Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen.

The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.

Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.