Quotes About Actor

Every project is a new challenge for an actor. If it's not, it's boring.

One of the joys about my job is that I've been able to constantly move and keep changing. The whole point of being an actor is you change your exterior everytime you do a new job and that's what keeps it exciting.

As an actor, you tend to live in a really small world, which is not very healthy. It is enriching to go to new places, meet different people know and learn about things which you didn't know about.

I do love comedy, I have to say. That's one of the greatest things about being an actor: You get to try new things and play around in different genres.

Acting-wise, I'm way more comfortable finding out new things about the actor in me and RJ as a person. There's a lot of new nuggets that I can dip in the sauce.

I feel as an actor it is very essential to develop new hobbies at least once every two to three months, so that you are pretty well acquainted with all the new things around you.

I wanted to be a New York City cop before I became an actor.

I had started out my grown-up life in New York City, but I couldn't figure out how to be an actor there. And so I had been a magazine illustrator instead.

I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film.

I have been an actor for more than 125 films now. People see me every day, every hour, be it on TV or in newspapers.

I think the life of an actor is glamorous to other people, but then the reality sets in: you don't know where you will be next year or how long you'll be there for.

I think everybody is intimidated by Jack Nicholson. But he was really nice to work with.

You know, OJ was a really nice guy, and he knew his lines. He was nice to everybody on the set. He got to be a better actor, I thought, with every movie.

I always play these bad guys, and I'm really a nice guy.

The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows.

There's no such thing as an actor giving positive criticism to a director. The minute you say 'Don't you think it would look nicer...', that director's going to hate your guts. Particularly if it's a good idea.

The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.

I'm seeing a guy now who has nothing to do with films. It's so much nicer with somebody who isn't an actor. Two crazy people in one house would be too much. It's better there's one crazy person, and one nice person who looks after that crazy person.

I don't know a nicer guy in the world than Alan Alda.

I was part of the Bollywood film 'Strikers,' which I would call a niche film.

Nick Lea is a great actor, and doing scenes with him was always awesome.

When I was on 'Haven,' my nickname was 'Sasquatch.'

'Mahershala' is my nickname.