Being a working actor, you're going to do a Spelling show. It's hard not to.

No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.

Actors are professionals who deal with people's emotions and their thoughts.

I'm a very fortunate actor. I'm blessed to be the position I'm in right now.

If an actor or actress is recognizable, that changes our perception of them.

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.

George Wendt is a saint. And one of the finest American actors that we have.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

Actors don't act, we're just being in a different circumstance and scenario.

Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.

Some people just can't handle that they will never be a better actor than me

It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone.

I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.

I was a B student in math, simply because my teachers liked me, as an actor.

As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?

Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama's favorite actors.

Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.

There's always down time when you're an actor, especially a character actor.

Every actor has to find space where they are free, in order to do good work.

A room full of great sportsmen is so much better than a room full of actors.

Most rappers these days is actors, And I can't keep watching the same movie.

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

You become an actor because you don't want to do the same thing all the time.

I love being an actor and a job is a job, and I'm always happy to have a job.

The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

It's almost a work-shopping process to create the characters with the actors.

When actors talk about research, they're just patting themselves on the back.

To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me.

Where can I go that would give me the same level of satisfaction as an actor?

I want to become a superstar, but for that, I first have to be a super actor.

A lot of my mates are actors and it's lovely to be able to work with friends.

As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic.

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold.

[Stand-up] might be ballsy, but I'd rather not be an actor. Actors are tools.

An actor has power, and their power is very simple: it's the power to say no.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly.

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled and you're treated with kid gloves.

As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.

I like actors. I like their insecurities, their humor and their intelligence.

Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.

Working with talented people and challenging myself as an actor [excites me].

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

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