Quotes About Actor

An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as an actor you really bring things in.

As an actor, whatever I get the opportunity to do, if it has a good story then I'm in. I thought 'Dead End' had a great story; 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' of course, was probably the first real horror film I was in.

The idea of going back to school and revising for exams would be hellish. As an actor, my form of revising is learning scenes, but to start going through biology, chemistry, and all of those sciences would be just a nightmare.

I'll never forget Spencer Tracy. He only worked from nine to one - then from three to five again.

I've actually been given a great gift. When I walk into an audition with a director, I'm carrying no baggage. They haven't seen me in anything, even though I've done nine films.

I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

Ninety percent of a good performance of an actor is based on the material. If you've got the material there, you can ride it.

I wasn't trained as an actor at all. I had studied painting in America and had no clue about acting when I came back.

The actor is in the hands of a lot of other people, over which he has no control.

When you're an actor starting out, you have no control. All you can do is prepare the best you can for auditions and turn up on time.

John Lithgow was absolutely wonderful in 'Dexter,' there's no doubt about it.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.

An actor had made a comment and said, 'You are so unapproachable.' He called me boring and said, 'You're no fun.' He also said, 'I don't know if I ever want to work with you again.' And I never worked with him after that film.

You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.

If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.

I was the worst actor, but here's the cool thing about it: I had no idea.

I have to say, when you make a movie, you really have no idea how it's going to turn out as an actor. The important bit for an actor is the actual shooting of it because the minute the shoot ends, it's got nothing to do with you anymore.

I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.

I had no intention of being an actor, ever.

I had no intention of being an actor in the first place. But it all started when I was 20, and by the time I was 28, it was stifling me.

I had no intention of becoming an actor.

I believe in what movies say, and I'm not an actor because I want things to be about me. I have no interest - if there was any way for my face to not be in a movie and still be an actor, I would do it.

I need time to do whatever I want to do. What happens to an actor that has no life experience? They don't know how to act as a different role. So, that's really important to do.

I have no problem in doing comedy, as I am happily consolidating my image of a comic actor.