Quotes About Actor

I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.

I adore children. If I weren't an actor, I would be a teacher or work with small children in some way. I feel happy in their company.

I consider myself a martial artist and an actor. They can work together or individually. I love to do action. I love having a good role in which I can act and fight. That's double happiness.

When I think of the definition of cool and when I look at people, John Travolta is really the definition of cool because, not only is he great in all his movies, but, as a person, he's just really cool.

Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary.

A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

And when I was a kid being an actor was not cool. I'm thirty now and when I was a kid in the 80s that wasn't a cool thing to be.

I was never educated to be an actor. I went to a regular college. It was a great thing for me because I feel that the main thing to get out of college is a thirst for knowledge. College should teach you how to be curious. Most people think that college is the end of education, but it isn't. The ceremony of giving you the diploma is called commencement. And that means you are fit to commence learning because you have learned how to learn.

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.

I feel blessed. I never wanted to be an actor. It just happened all by chance and fate. I was studying to be a teacher.

I wasn't Santa in Santa Jr., but I was Santa in Cancel Christmas.

I've also just finished filming the role of Robert Brown in 'Just William,' which is due to transmit on BBC One at Christmas.

I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.

I lack confidence as an actor.

To be an actor, a lot of times it's a strange combination of high confidence and low self-esteem. Which is a weird combination to have, but I think it's sort of very common among actors.

I'm a very cerebral person and I like to do my homework and break it down. I like to feel like I did my due diligence. It's a confidence factor for me, as an actor.

The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage.

Being in the movie [School of Rock] was really cool. Sometimes we had to do takes over, but Jack always kept us going. He was fun.

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.

My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness.

I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.