Actor Quotes
The craft, nerves, and quiet discipline of acting.
These actor quotes capture the appeal of the work itself over the discomfort of interviews, the rehearsal room as the real proving ground, and the personal risk of choosing acting as a career in the first place. See Character for more on building a role.
Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.
The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.
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I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor.
So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.
Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.
Some of these guys... I've worked with Ice Cube, I think he's an immensely talented rapper and actor.
I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.
As an actor, you have times that are bustling, and then you have the quieter, slower times. I definitely had some of those.
As an actor, you want to do something which audience don't expect from you.
I think when I started out, when I was very young, I wanted to be an actor and do the great epic tragedies.
For me as a Welsh actor, Richard Burton is one of my biggest idols. And I've got so many: Peter O'Toole, Laurence Olivier and Oliver Reed. If they got 'Hunky Dory' and 'Citadel' offered to them, they would do completely...
When you're an actor, there are so many opportunities that are not in your control.
