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An actor's success has the life expectancy of a small boy about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match. — Fred Allen

There are many ups and downs in everyone's life and when you're an actor usually you're a very sensitive human being. — Melanie Griffith

We're very lucky people, doing something that we really love to do. I feel privileged to have been an actor all my life. — Dick Van Patten

I have been a depressed kid. I wanted to lead a quiet life, never wanted to be an actor. — Pawan Kalyan

Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life. I'm gonna be Meryl Streep Rivers. — Joan Rivers

People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life, and I don't have one friend who is an actor! — Sara Paxton

I've been on the stage my entire life as an actor. — Jeremy Piven

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life. — Patrick Warburton

God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around. — Michael Horton

I'm really enjoying being an actor right now, at this point in my life. It's a great job, it's a huge responsibility, and I just want to do it more. — Shannyn Sossamon

I told my extremely conservative, uber-traditional Korean father, 'Hey, Dad, I know what I want to do for the rest of my life. I want to be an actor.' — Kenneth Choi

At any period of an actor's life, it's fairly likely that they'll be cast in ways that are reminiscent. That's the way it goes. — Ben Mendelsohn

I'm an actor, because I get to see other sides of life and I get to be other people and it excites me so much. — Callum Blue

My path was to be an actor and it's been very good to me in life. It's broadened my horizons and given me a lot of gifts. — Nicole Kidman

A writer visualises life in words, a painter in colours, a singer in music, an actor in emotions, a dancer in steps... — Shikha Kaul

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying. — Jane Badler

Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life. — Jeremy Renner

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience. — Josh Peck

Backstage life is terrific training for an actor, seeing shows from the wings. — Alan Alda

In the scenes of moral life the soul is at once actor and spectator. — Joseph Marie, Baron De Gerando

As an Asian actor, I would like once in my life to do just one Hollywood movie. It would be a memorable experience. — Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Any time an opportunity scares you that much, you should seriously consider saying yes. — Rob Lowe

I think the life of an actor is very glamorous to other people - then, realities set in. — Joel Edgerton

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different. — Cate Blanchett

I am a filmmaker fanatic. I have never been star-struck by an actor once in my entire life. — Jonah Hill

I do everything I can to be the best actor I can be, the best musician I can be. I try to take risks; I try not to let fear run my life. — Robert David Hall

As an actor, I feel like youre asked to live life as vibrantly as possible. — Stana Katic

My mother implanted in me as a young girl ... you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's. — Hillary Clinton

Be Your Best Without the Stress!Be the director and actor in your movie, called My Life. — Katrina Radke

From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life. — Leon Askin

I never saw an actor and thought, 'Wow, I want to be like that.' It's just I wanted it to be part of my life. — Marc-Andre Grondin

There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor. — Gary Busey

The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles. — Kabir Bedi

You look at somebody's work as an actor and you can see their emotional life being fed into it and you can kind of feel them through it. — Nicole Kidman

Actually, I played Pontius Pilate as nice. An actor spends his life thinking he is Christ, and then he gets to play the character that killed him. — James Nesbitt

I have been very lucky for most of my adult life to be working as an actor. — Josh Hopkins

My whole life, I always wanted to be an actor. — Keith David

The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life. — Kirsten Dunst

Andrew Lincoln has to be the nicest, ego-less lead actor that I've ever met in my life. His energy and temperament just falls over everyone. — Chad Coleman

You've only got a short shelf-life as an actor, and I want to make the most of it while I can. — Sharon Horgan

Life as a Person is Unfair, Life as an Actor is Bullshit — Joshua Teya

The actor's life is the road. Always has been, always will be. That is his cross and his glory. — Nick Mancuso

It was one of the great chances in my life to become a Dumont actor. — Leon Askin

I want diversity in what I do, as that's what helps you in the long term. It's more fulfilling, and you'll have a longer shelf life as an actor. — Theo James

What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life. — Vincent Price

An actor's life is fairly lonely. — Melissa Leo

Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. — Michael Caine

I don't want fame. I want to grow as an actor and a person while having my family and my life. — Leighton Meester

Life actors never rehearse and need no script. A life actor uses only what is available, nothing more, nothing less. — Abbie Hoffman

I got a rent-stabilized apartment in 1977, and that has made my life as an actor possible. — Marylouise Burke

I've been given lots of great advice, in my life. As an actor, just being as honest and as present as you can be. — Rachel McAdams

It's like everyone's a supporting actor in the film of your life story. — Nick Hornby

Every once in a while in an actor's life, a cast comes together. — Joyce DeWitt

As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life. — Benedict Cumberbatch

You have to live your life like you're pretending. An actor living a character's life. Otherwise you won't take risks. You won't live. — Laura Dockrill

I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater. — Cary Elwes

The life of an actor can be very enviable. — Wallace Shawn

The theater I got to do informs every move I make as an actor and will for the rest of my life. I can't shake it if I wanted to, but I don't want to. — Jim Parsons

You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script. — John Taylor Gatto

It is very important for an actor or actress to look around at everything and everyone and never forget about real life. — Sophia Loren

The reality of an actor's life is that we do not always have the luxury of choice. We take what comes to us. — Stephanie D'Abruzzo

I live a very privileged life. I'm an accomplished actor, I have a very solid normal family, tons of siblings, and a mother that loves me. — Chloe Grace Moretz

My job as an actor is for you, so why should my private life be for you, too? That's not fair. — Martin Freeman

The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk. — Graydon Carter

Life is like a movie where you are both the director and the actor. — Steven Redhead

You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today. — Catherine Deneuve

I didn't want to be an actor. I wanted to design historical movies like 'Ben-Hur'. I saw this as my life. — Dante Ferretti

I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old. — Aaron Yoo

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication. — Marlon Brando

There's this great fantasy of going to work, every day, and getting to play out what people think my life is, as a successful actor. — Robert Knepper

I come from a show-business family, so wanting to become an actor never crossed my mind. It was just a part of my life. — Christopher Walken

The actor's life offers, on a daily basis, the simulacrum of love; a mask can be satisfied, or at least consoled, by the echo of what it seeks. — Salman Rushdie

What we consider typical of the male is a question I ask myself quite often - it's relevant to my life as an actor and as a man. — Elliot Cowan

Well, I'm a character actor, and actually throughout my life I've ... I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I've done it. — Rene Auberjonois

To get involved with the following loves will bring grief to your life style: musician, author and actor. — Daniel Bel-Tempo

Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life. — Alfred Hitchcock

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted. — Arabella Weir

I think I know where my life went wrong. For all the world's a stage and I'm a lousy actor! — Greg Curtis

Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play. — Mignon McLaughlin

I'm not a big star in Japan. I'm an actor. I have a very normal life. Four days a week, I cook at home. A star doesn't do that. — Ken Watanabe

I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office. — Vincent D'Onofrio

Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor. — Kevin Costner

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life. — Alec Guinness

Like any other actor, I draw on life experience. — Donnie Yen

I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.' — Teddy Sears

Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it. — Ram Dass

The better the actor, the less you know about his life. I mean, nobody's better than De Niro and you don't know anything about him, right? — Matt Damon

If you have life's experiences with you, nothing can stop you from being a competent actor. — Randeep Hooda

If life is a performance, and I am not an actor, am I supposed to lie down and die? — Juliana Hatfield

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

I think, from every actor I've ever spoken to, they say the biggest thing they regret from life is not finishing school. — Tom Holland

I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I am. I am going to be that. — Mara Wilson

Maybe that's my lot in life as an actor, to be the guy who gets crapped on everywhere he goes. Oh God. — Rider Strong

The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, 'Who won the Oscar last year?' — Cliff Robertson

Sure, I want to be the best actor in the world. But my life is my family, my son, my friends. I don't know how anyone can find fault with that. — James Caan

I had this vivid image of myself at the age of 60 looking back on my life and truly regretting the fact that I hadn't tried to be an actor — Lupita Nyong'o

I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the scripts I read in my acting life. — Joel Edgerton

As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many. — Charlton Heston

Some situations recognize me as a good actor though I want to be true to everyone! — Nelson Jack

The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that. — James D'arcy