Quotes About Actor

At the end of the day, if you are an actor, you definitely know that you're just work-for-hire.

It's a pretty good job being an actor, but it's work sometimes. And when I say work, I mean it's a job.

That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.

I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.

If you're a leading actor you don't work with another actor. You work with a lady.

It's so much easier to write for an actor than for an imaginary character and then try to fit that character to an actor. It doesn't work very often in my experience.

I think the theater work and the on-camera work feed off each other. My theater work has become more simple, and my on-camera work has become more energized or more spontaneous.

I think the hardest thing about being an actor is between jobs when you don't know and wondering if you'll ever work again. It's kind of a crazy business.

As an actor you just want to continue to work on things that you like. You can be in this business a long time and consistently working and just be totally artistically unfulfilled.

I guess it's a bit cliché, but as an actor, I really admire good writing. There are a lot of great ideas out there, but it's the execution that really makes it work.

I'm sticking my tongue out in scenes to try to make that work in 3D. I'm thinking I'll try to get my tongue all the way out to the second row of the audience.

Sometimes as an actor you're struggling to make things work. That was never the case for me with [Big Little Lies script]. It just kind of flowed out.

When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.

I think that one of the strangest things about being an actor is, it's almost freelance work.

I think I was almost 12, so I knew who George C. Scott was, but if I could work with George C. Scott now, I'd be so pumped.

As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money.

Well, the nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.

I would never not work on the part without it playing. That's what being an actor is. You use everything that's influenced you to help you get out of yourself or be more creative.

What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.

It's such a fortunate life, if you can work as an actor.

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

It's part of your job as an actor to put your personal problems behind you and work. Good actors can do that.

I may be a B-movie star, but I work. I'm an actor.

There's this great fantasy of going to work, every day, and getting to play out what people think my life is, as a successful actor.