Quotes About Actor

I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.

In the creative arts you draw a special power. The discipline required is awesome to be an actor or an actress, to be really good, not just another one waiting tables.

I can't really attribute my success onscreen to any formula and suggest you "do this or that" to make it as an actor.

A student of mine is an actor, he used to go into these interviews and sometimes not get the part. He was "taken out". Someone would use power in a way that would cause him not to succeed

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.

One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.

Wagner: Ich hab es öfters rühmen hören, Ein Komödiant könnt einen Pfarrer lehren. Faust: Ja, wenn der Pfarrer ein Komödiant ist; Wie das denn wohl zuzeiten kommen mag.

I truly believe that the job of an actor and the drive of an actor is simulating the internal journey in life which is to get deeper and deeper into our understanding of who we are.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.

One man in his time plays many parts.

In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined.

Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes.

I mean, look, I wear makeup in films. I don't wear makeup in real life. It's just part of the gig, that's all.

In the scenes of moral life the soul is at once actor and spectator.

The actor's life is the road. Always has been, always will be. That is his cross and his glory.

I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely.

I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.

Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang on to illusion as eagerly as life itself.

The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life.

I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV.

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

fresco of an actor's mask from a room in Augustus' house on the Palatine Hill, which may have been his bedroom. The princeps enjoyed theater and, to judge by his last words, saw himself as a performer. He asked the people around his bedside: "Have I played my part in the farce of life well enough?