Quotes About Actor

There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.

I think the more you do as an actor, the more facility you have to switch on and off.

I have to enjoy life - it is a privilege to be an actor and I love what I do, so I will act those moments and then do my best to switch off - life is too short.

There isn't a switch that I turn on. I'm an actor. This is what I do.

There is nothing called 'switch on-switch-off' in an actor. We are not machines.

I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.

I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.

So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started.

Acting is a symbiotic process, it is an amalgamation of many many things put together and when there is a call for action, that's when you surrender and the moment of truth comes out, that's when you perform. That is the process for every good actor.

Paul Newman is a sex symbol.

I think of myself as an actor first, not a sex symbol. Do I think I'm sexy? No, that's someone else's judgment, and I honestly don't think you can try to be sexy and really succeed.

You'd be hard-pressed to find an actor who isn't a sex symbol somewhere.

I know I walk a fine line between being a respected actor and being what they call a sex symbol.

I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.

Sex appeal is a good thing for commercial cinema. Though I can't sit at home and consider myself a sex symbol, it is for people to do so. I want to be known as an interesting actor.

Good characters don't believe they're bad. As long as you as an actor believe in them and try to understand them, it's not hard to have empathy and sympathy.

In fact, it is more interesting to play someone whose politics is not in sync with my own politics because then I have to understand a different kind of mind and that becomes more interesting as an actor.

I have had some great co-actors to work with like Richa Chadha, Taapsee Pannu and Alia Bhatt. I really value these big co-stars because if they are in sync with you, it makes you a better actor.

No actor has a flawless career, but in the long term, I'd like my name to be synonymous with good quality.

I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.

I understudied Colm Feore quite a bit in '85 and '86 - 'Persephone' and 'The Boys from Syracuse,' too - and that was great, great training for me. He was and he is an amazing theatre actor.

I suspected the movies, considering her cheap crack about me being a ten-cent Clark Gable, which was ridiculous. He simpers, to begin with, and to end with no one can say I resemble a movie actor, and if they did it would be more apt to be Gary Cooper than Clark Gable.

The only power an actor has is the ability to say "no."

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.