Quotes About Actor

As an actor you have to deliver what the director wants.

I was awestruck by the way Irrfan works, I used to keep looking at him while he delivered his scenes. He's one brilliant actor and a pleasure to work with.

Bill Nighy has an idiosyncratic delivery.

It can be tough to turn things down, but as an actor, being in demand is a nice problem to have.

Each role demands the right actor. To play an artist, one must be an artist.

I'm an actor. 99.9% of all actors in the world have been in denial towards the military.

A film's success does not depend on box office collection and the number of days it was screened but on the amount of satisfaction an actor can draw from it.

I never wanted to be an actor. Because when you're an actor, you depend on other people to come to you with scripts. You can't create your own. Unless you are a Raj Kapoor, who was a producer-director.

I think sometimes as an actor your career and life are kind of dependent on other people's decisions, what other people tell you, what time other people tell you to get up in the morning, what lines people tell you to say.

An actor doesn't have a regular job. He is dependent upon the roles which are given him.

As an actor, I can just show up and do my job. The success and failure of the film depends on team work.

Without 'Santini,' my life as an actor would never have had any of the depth or, at least, nothing like the depth it has now.

Every actor wants that - to have a great character and then continue to add more into the depth of his life.

If you find yourself desperate for money, you sometimes do whatever, but on the other hand, if you really want to be known as a certain type of actor, then you have to restrain yourself.

I've never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I'm a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on, look at me. I'm really Desperate Dan.

When you take this journey of becoming an actor, there are only destinations - one, where people give you that limelight and expect the world from you, and two, they don't know who you are, and they don't care what you are doing. You have to choose where you want to go.

The exciting part is the journey of an actor. Each destination in my life is something that I celebrate.

I'd like to play an alien, like from 'Starman' or 'K-PAX,' where it's human. I think I'm destined to play an alien.

My first films were comedy, 'Murder By Death,' and 'The Cheap Detective.' But now they won't think of me as a comedian. Now, they think of me as a bad guy, and I can't do comedy.

My character started off on 'Chicago P.D.' as the brother to Detective Jake Halstead, and then I also played on 'Chicago Fire.' So, I really worked on both shows before 'Chicago Med' even started.

I always thought if I wasn't an actor, I might make quite a good detective - mainly because I'm nosey.

The right costume determines the character, helps the actor feel who he is, and serves the story.

As an actor, you don't really have a say or a voice in what the conversation of the show is going to be. So, as an actor, I'm just trying to make sense of why the character is making these choices, and somehow, in that way, you can sympathize or root, at least not detest, what this person is doing. That's, at least, my job in telling that story.

I wanted to get on with my life when I was 16. I knew I wanted to be an actor. I wanted to get out of Detroit.