Quotes About Actor

I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.

Marrying a 'mercurial, dramatic, shouty and difficult' actress who demanded a role in his films had been a challenge.110

I was never in the closet as an actor. It never occurred to me that my sexuality was something to be ashamed of.

People have come to me for my opinion since 'October Baby.' But, hey, look, I'm an actor who is very fortunate to be in a movie that's making wonderful noise, and hopefully helping parents and children to be a little closer. Leave me alone. I'm not talking about politics. I'm just trying to have a conversation with my own kids.

There might be the odd person in my family who was an artist down the line, but no one in my immediate family is an actor of any kind.

Being interviewed is an odd experience for me because I was an actor a long time before anyone ever asked me a question about myself. When I started being interviewed, I definitely felt I was being asked to defend or explain myself.

To be frank, my career as an actor was not even taking care of my lifestyle. Doing two odd films a year wasn't making me financially secure.

The review I've been most offended by came when I played Hamlet. I'd always prided myself on being an 'invisible actor' and not getting in the way of the play. But this review didn't mention me once. That's worse than being insulted.

I didn't audition for 'Fargo.' It was a straight offer.

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.

I wasn't offered a role in 'Expendables 1,' and I'm a guest star in 'Expendables 2.'

I've got quite a big fan base, and people like to see you do the same thing - that's why you get offered the same roles.

I'm an actor. I'll take a lead if it's offered. The really good actors can fill a character, no matter what the role is. A good leading man is a character actor; a good character actor can be a leading man.

I get offered a lot of parts where I want to say, 'Why don't you just hire a model? Don't hire an actor.' I'm trying to convince people I'm a real actor, not some mannequin.

I was offered a series by John Carpenter after I did the movie 'Christine,' and I would've been a leading man after that. I would have played a private investigator. And I was offered a great deal - I would be involved in the direction, casting, everything, and whatever. It was whatever an actor wants, and I didn't take it.

Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.

There were offers to do 'Tum Bin 2' and 'Tum Bin 3' but then it would have been the same kind of franchise films which I think limit an actor.

You have so many offers coming to you so as an actor it is all about finding which project to invest your energy in.

Well, Trump campaign is not an actor. Trump campaign is the official campaign of the president.

And I'm OK being judged as an actor.

There are two jobs. There is being an actor, and there is being a celebrity. Some people are really good at both. Some people are really good celebrities and terrible actors, and some people are really good actors and terrible celebrities. Hopefully, I am a really good actor and an OK celebrity.

I want to be the best actor that I can be; I want to be working in this business absolutely, and if that means being a movie star, then OK, that's fine. But to me, movie star, celebrity, all that stuff means something very different than being an actor.