Quotes About Actor

All I am hoping for is to be able to work-I think my best work is still ahead of me-I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor.

I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.

If you talk to any actor, they'll tell you that working is the best thing.

My job as an actor is to serve the script. If I'm looking at it as to see what the best character is, then it's not really looking at the big picture.

I just consider myself a committed actor. If a movie is a success, that's great; I'm happy for that. But I've learned just to concentrate on my job and do the best that I can.

I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

I've learned from every director I've worked with. Everybody's style is very different, and I always say that being an actor is the best film school that I could ever go to.

I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.

I am the guy dressing up in, you know, the caveman outfit for the kids birthday parties.

A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

I'd like to see myself married with a child and hopefully still involved in the entertainment business as an actor who is also able to write a bit and direct some projects.

I didn't go into this business to do action because I'm a classically trained actor. But I'm good at kicking and punching.

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

I don't think an actor's job is to be recognized. I think an actor's job is to facilitate the writing in a way that changes the way people think. No other business does that.

As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.

Consider the cast. Conrad Veit, the somnambulist in the classic 1920 expressionist film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, had left Germany with his Jewish wife in 1933; the highest-paid member of the cast, he starred as Major Heinrich Strasser.

Ex-boyfriend #5 appears onstage. Like many of the boys Tiny's attracted to, he's an actor. (If that last sentence raised a big red flag for you, that means you've tried to date an actor.)

It occurred to me then that my mother was a better actor than I ever hoped to be. Acting is different that posing or pretending. When done with precision, it bears a striking resemblance to lying. Stripped of the costumes and grand gestures, it presents itself as as an unquestionable truth.

If I work with Shah Rukh, it will be as an actor, not a star. Whenever I have thought of making a film with some star in mind, I've abandoned the film in a few weeks.

The life of an actor is sort of abnormal in the sense where you never know what's going to happen, which I've really given over to.

Thanks to 'Eega,' people respect me as actor. That abundance of respect is what pulls me towards cinema.

I believe it's important to have equal opportunities as a black actor. My way of fighting for it is through my art, by not accepting that there are roles that aren't for me.

I'm not accustomed to doing films without seeing the script.