Quotes About Actor

It was a great learning experience to work with James Stewart.

Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed.

I think having healthy relationships makes me feel much more confident and available to do good work as an actor.

I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor.

Even in my dreams of being an actor, my dream was not in the celebrity. My dream was in the work that I wanted to do.

Sometimes I hate the job that I do as an actor. I feel like I'm just of no importance in the world, but sometimes you get a real thrill out of the diversity of the work.

I have a reputation for being an improvisational actor, which is true, but I also know what I'm doing so that if the improvisational strand doesn't work I can go back to what I know's already there.

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege.

My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all - that is not as important to me.

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

I've always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you know. And there are ups and downs, and you work through them, and you work with them.

I hate working out. Because I work out for films now solely I come to associate it with work.

As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.

I'm an actor that likes to go to work. I like going to work every day. I'm a worker by nature. I'm not someone who does one film a year and feels satisfied by that.

I haven't really been auditioning. For me is about finding quality work versus finding work. I get a considerable amount of offers everyday.

I'm just looking to be in the best movies possible and do the best work possible and try to become a better actor and make better movies.

Screen work always boils down to that moment between the camera and the actor or the actors. It always boils down to that, ultimately. You serve the camera.

As an actor, one is so appreciative when one is working. I think I am lucky that I have the opportunity to work having that total dependence on an external validation.

Sometimes acting and politics make a very bad combination. I think that sometimes people take me less seriously in my work for the UN because I am an actor.

I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work.

I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open.

I don't normally watch films I'm in because I'm squeamish about that and it takes me quite a long time to recover and I have to go to work. I'm not being coy or cute, but it's just true.

You cant be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.