Quotes About Actor

The classical actor in England makes roughly the equivalent of a bus driver.

I'm not a big classical actor.

Classics stay alive because a great actor or a great director wants to do them.

An actor is like a piece of clay: you just keep moulding me. Even people who work with you every day want to put you in a little box.

As an actor, there's always that fear. You don't know where the next job's coming from, so you say, 'I'll do that, I'll do that, I'll do that'. Your choices are not always clearly thought out, and you can end up taking mis-steps.

The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.

More than being a star, I want to be an actor. This may sound cliched but that is how it is.

It will sound very cliched but when I was kid I always wanted to be singer and never an actor.

Each director is different. Clint Eastwood and Chris Nolan are completely different, and I need to adjust to the story and character and the director and just my duty as an actor.

I love writing. It is the closest thing to me after being an actor.

I'm an actor, not a clown.

To be respected as an actor it doesn't help to be seen out in the clubs.

As an actor, you can believe that you are the reason for a show's success, but these things are a brand name now. They're like Coca-Cola. It's like, with or without you, people are still gonna drink it.

I'm kind of in a middle space, being marketed as a biracial actor. Roles are written either stereotypically black, or they're written 'normal,' which is just code for white.

I'll be in a series for three or four episodes, but then I'll be off the series, and downtime, as an actor, is a little more than most people understand. Most of the time you're just sitting around taking coffee with friends.

It's great being an actor and being part of a play or a film where there's usually quite a big group of people who are collaborating, and your job is really to fit in and share that energy. With music, because I write the songs, it's a broader, more abstract process.

With most good scripts and good shows, they expect the actor to bring some of their ideas to the backstory of the character. It's always a good collaboration between the actor and the writer and the director to try stuff out during the process.

I think every actor would probably say that it's always a collaboration. And if you ask directors, they'll tell you that they expect the actors to bring something. They don't want to be thinking for everybody.

I'm not a comedian, I'm an actor.

I'm an actor, I'm not a comedian, I never was a comedian.

I was an actor before becoming a comedian.

I'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an actor.

I am not a comedian, I am an actor.

I think of myself as a light comedian.