Quotes About Actor

I don't think readers will give a damn about a divorce lawyer,' she said. 'Can't you make him something more interesting … like an actor or a musician?

I am an actor, but my most important job is provider of my family.

Being a good actor is sort of understanding the complexity of the human psyche and also knowing that we are none of us perfect.

I always think I could play a fantastic psychopath. I'd like to play a psycho. With a heart, you know. A caring lunatic.

All you ever want as an actor is to play psychologically complex, interesting characters and Jeremy Bamber is at the very least that.

I went through a brief phase when I thought of other career options: being an air hostess and even a psychologist. But eventually, my destiny led me to acting. Moreover, my dad being an actor, I have grown up in a very filmi environment. I was encouraged to watch films since I was a child.

I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

I hated improvisation because in my early days as an actor, improvisation meant somebody had just come down from Oxford and they were doing a play above a pub in Kentish Town, and the biggest ego would win.

Several years ago, I began losing my hair, and like a lot of men, it was a major concern to me, in fact it was practically an obsession. But, also I'm an actor, so I'm in the public eye a lot and I really felt that my hair loss could affect my career prospects.

It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.

I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can.

I used to be an actor, I used to be a journalist and I used to be a publicist. I know how all these people think.

I have, obviously, a very complex relationship with the more industrial side of filmmaking and the machinery that can take an actor or an actress and create something so bamboozling and monumental and fathomless in terms of publicity hits.

Publicity is very important for any actor, especially when you are new, and people need to know you.

I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.

I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off.

I'm the sort of actor who doesn't really prep a lot - I don't do a lot of research for parts. I just go for it, and I usually pull through.

The only reason I'm an actor is that a lady pulled out of a parking space in front of a producer's office.

I'm basically a dancer and cinema just happened to me, sometimes I still wonder how I could become an actor. My friends too keep asking how I pulled it off.

I do think, oddly, that a comedic actor has a better chance of pulling off a dramatic role than a great dramatic actor has of being able to pull off a highly comedic role.

When I do work, I choose to see every job as an opportunity to grow, as an actor and as a person. My favourite part of it is being part of a team, with everyone pulling in the same direction.

An actor can give his best shot but the script and dialogues have to have punch to make it more effective.

I hate Keanu Reeves. I think he's a punk.

But the more successful I became as an actor, the less control I had. I became more of a puppet, really. It certainly felt like that, at least.