Quotes About Actor

If a Hollywood studio needed a fighter to play the hero in an old-time boxing movie, the search could begin and end with John Duddy.

You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I figured I'd try it.

My life is one that I've aimed for - I've always wanted to be an actor who worked in film and television and was able to provide for himself and his family.

I've always been an actor who works in every medium - I've worked in theater and film and television - I've never seen any difference between the three.

The blessing that this film business has given me is that when I walk into a school I automatically have everyone's attention. They want to hear what the guy from 'Con Air' and 'Desperado' has to say.

It's never easy for an actor who doesn't have connections in the film industry and who has to start from scratch.

I didn't go to film school. I had been an actor in movies, I had been in plays, and then I just sort of jumped into it.

I'm the type of actor that, if I'm not filming something, I'm in class.

The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team of people who have been working on it for months before you start. You have this really intense period of filming and then you leave it, knowing that the director will work on it for another few months.

I think as a filmmaker and as a director, you shortchange yourself if you inhibit the ability of your actor to bring their own personal experiences to the characters.

As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

It's not as if I've have done really awful films. It's just that my films haven't clicked at the box-office which doesn't make me a lousy actor.

I feel like I've finally made it as an actor. I've been doing this for years and you don't always make a movie that everybody likes.

I never looked at my future as comedy. Even at Second City, I always thought of it as acting. I knew I was going to be an actor financially, emotionally, egotistically.

I never looked at my future as comedy. Even at Second City, I always thought of it as acting. I knew I was going to be an actor, financially, emotionally, egotistically. I still don't think I'm in comedy.

To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.

Derek Jacobi is probably our finest actor.

It's very difficult to put your finger on why a certain actor or actress will capture your attention, and you'll think they're right for a role. There's an essence to a person.

Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.

I was fired as an actor on 'Bosch.'

I am still seeking to become firmly established as an actor.

The actor in me can never die. It's my first love and first dream. That's what keep me going.

My first love was always direction; I had worked hard as a film-maker but not as an actor.