Actor Quotes - page 3

To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles. (Charlton Heston)

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

Alex Cox

The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability.

Anna Lindh

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.

Anthony Michael Hall

Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can.

Christopher Eccleston

No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do.

Dabney Coleman

I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself.

David Morse

I don't like talking about myself. I'm not really interested in myself. One of the good things about being a supporting actor is that you get to talk about other people.

David Morse

I fit into the quirky, character class type of actor.

Debra Wilson

I see my face in the mirror, and I said, No, my ambition is not to be an actor.

Dino De Laurentiis

Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed. (Dougray Scott)

I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.

Gregory Harrison

I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.

Kyra Sedgwick

As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role.

Lynn Redgrave

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.

Max von Sydow

Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.

Norman Jewison

As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.

Skeet Ulrich

I was dissatisfied just being an actor.

Stanley Tucci

And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.

Scott Speedman

I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.

Vincent D'Onofrio

You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap. (Vincent Schiavelli)

I've also grown as an actor as I've got older in life. I've learnt how to go to work, immerse myself 100 per cent in the character and, at the end of the day, take it all off and go back, get a nice bubble bath, have a nice massage and realise that is not my life. And that feels good.

Halle Berry

When a young woman tells me that she wants to become and actor, I say, 'No, be a writer. Or go to business school and learn how to run a studio.' The only real change will come from behind the scenes.

Halle Berry

As far as I could discover, the notion that a play could succeed without any further help from the actor than a simple impersonation of his part never occurred to Tree.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

In order to feel safer on his private jet, actor John Travolta has purchased a bomb-sniffing dog. Unfortunately for the actor, the dog came six movies too late.

Tina Fey

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