I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor.

I know what my talents are, and at the end of the day I'm an actor who can dance.

Clark Gable was the only real he-man I've ever known, of all the actors I've met.

I'm sure one reason I became an actor is my basic unwillingness to live one life.

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

If you're not good looking, you're considered a good actor, you know what I mean?

Good actors need better projects, and these days there aren't enough going round.

Maybe I'm a better actor when I know there's going to be an older woman involved.

I want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor.

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

I think the better you know yourself as a person, the better an actor you can be.

Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?

One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.

I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.

When I was a child actor, I had the fear that I was going to be cast as the tree.

I'm an actor. I love to act. That's my job. I'll leave the politicking to others.

As actors, we're a little faster than other people, with breaking down the walls.

I think people are starting to think of me less as an actor and more as a writer.

What did my parents say when I told them I wanted to be an actor? 'Be a plumber.'

Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.

You can't stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors' Guild card.

I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table.

To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.

I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.

Usually I don't get specific advice from certain actors or actresses I work with.

Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.

The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.

People are more willing to accept a singer as an actor, than an actor as a singer.

Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences.

It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.

My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

And at the end of the day, if the movie's no good, I'll live to fight another day.

We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.

I’m a comedian who got into movies, so I don’t really think of myself as an actor.

Actors will say, 'My character wouldn't say that.' Who said it was your character?

I've always been a bit of a self-doubter, I think a lot of actors are. I still am.

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

I didn't really have any aspirations to do TV when I first decided to be an actor.

Someone called actors 'sculptors in snow.' Very apt. In the end, it's all nothing.

If you're a leading actor you don't work with another actor. You work with a lady.

I'm a working actor, so I do pretty much whatever comes along because it's my job.

I can be a horrible actor, but I make a move that makes a money I'm secured a job.

First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience.

I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.

I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.

Television is a big roulette table on so many levels. That's all it is for actors.

Im a career actor. And I question this constant reliance on TV fame and celebrity.

I know when an actor is giving it his/her all and when they're just phoning it in.

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