Quotes About Actor

I wouldn't say one is easier or more difficult, but when you're inside a costume and a mask, you have to endure heat - and, often, difficulty seeing. The vision is not very good in a mask. And you have to cope with that, as well as trying to think about this character.

I'm a director's actor, and I surrender myself to the vision and the process. I think nothing else matters then.

A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.

As an actor, you're always at the service of somebody else's vision. In a play, it's more of the director's vision, and he or she's got their hands on you all the way up to opening night, and if it's a film, there are even more people.

My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it.

He wanted desperately to be an actor. The pursuit of fame and fortune far outweighed his ability to experience joy. He thought he could be acceptable and worthwhile only if he had fame. I taught him to love and accept himself, and he got well. He is now grown up and appears on Broadway with regularity. As he learned to experience the joy of being himself, the parts in plays opened up for him.

As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that.

Adam senses a large weariness in him, the weariness of an old actor in the middle of a long run in an old part.

There was something studied about this hesitancy, something theatrical. Again, I understand. A doctor must be as good an actor as physician.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done."

I should be an actor because I'm pretty dang good at hiding the pain.

It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.

It takes a long while for a director to cease thinking in terms of the result he desires and instead concentrate on discovering the source of energy in the actor from which true impulses arise.

I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.

When you are public figure, you're an athlete or actor, that is your job to speak out on certain things. I think you speak out on what you desire to speak out on or your passionate about.

It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an actor.

Each of us has our own destiny. Mine is to be an actor.

I believe there can be dignity in the acting profession. And I think there ought to be more dignity in the publicity an actor gets.

I don't know, as long as I get to evolve and grow as an actor and as a person, that's the stuff I'm after.

Yes, you want to do studio movies, but I also want to grow as an actor, and an actress like me is not going to get roles where you grow and evolve in a studio film. It's just not gonna happen.

If there's ever going to be a challenge for an actor, it's that character who's often evolving - which is not often the case in television.

I play one role until I take on another, which is exactly what a professional actor should do.

I'm just not the kind of actor to take things home with me in any excessive way.

Once cannot know if the film is going to be a hit or not so as an actor I choose films that excite me.