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Being an actor is well paid, but it's a bit like being a circus traveler. — Ben Chaplin

It never occurred to me to be an actor. — John Malkovich

I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever. — Ansel Elgort

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

I'm not much of an actor, I'm realizing. — Nick Wechsler

Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted. — Kevin Kline

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor. — Quentin Tarantino

The same thing I applied to football, I applied to trying to be an actor and hopefully it came off well. — Jerry Rice

Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor. — Jack Lemmon

My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom. — Zoe Kazan

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.' — Joe Namath

As an actor, I've been drawn to those characters that are further away from who I may be. — Kurt Sutter

You can't believe Russell Crowe is the same actor who won an Oscar one year ago for Gladiator. — Joel Siegel

In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor. — Michael Caine

As an actor, you're always nervous as to what a director will do with something. — Kevin Spacey

I think that ultimately what drives my decisions is if I think the opportunity is going to challenge me in a way that makes me better as an actor. — Dane DeHaan

My first film as an actor was 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' a glorious experience that spoiled me for future films. — Eric Stoltz

I'm not an actor. — Jenna Marbles

I'm an actor for hire. It's important not to forget that you're disposable ... When you have that mentality, you fight for the jobs you want. — Scarlett Johansson

I want to be an actor, and I am being an actor. I'm not ready to run off on a road trip. Yet. — Liane Balaban

My taste in the films I've taken as an actor is similar to what I'd do a director or writer: all quite odd, challenging stuff, slightly off-the-wall. — Daniel Radcliffe

You know, I think Chris Nolan is an incredibly intelligent filmmaker, and I think Leonardo DiCaprio is an incredibly talented actor. — Ryan Kavanaugh

It is often difficult to watch yourself onscreen, especially 60-feet high. As an actor, it is an uncomfortable experience. — Chris Hemsworth

I'm just an actor. I am nothing special. — Mandy Patinkin

When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person. — Pam Grier

That's the worst thing for an actor: when you say to someone, "Yeah, I was in that movie," and they say, "You were?" — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I'd be acting in movies. — Mathieu Amalric

I'm a reasonably good actor, and I'm an average naval officer. Ha, ha! — Mark Hadlow

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

You're always dealing with emotions as an actor. — Clive Owen

First of all, i'm not an actor - I'm an asshole. — Chelsea Handler

In terms of likeability, that's something that I don't think about as an actor when I approach a role. — David Duchovny

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

I think that an actor is more likely to be forgiven in the public's eye than an actress. — Mila Kunis

If I was just considered a looker and wasn't considered an actor, where would I be in 10 or 20 years from now? — Heather Matarazzo

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening! — Marlon Brando

I wasn't one of those people who went to see a play and said, 'I want to be an actor.' I fell into it. — Henry Czerny

I've been an actor for 30 years, so I pretty much know how to do the basics of a fight without hurting anybody. — Julie Benz

I don't know one actor that became an actor for healthy reasons. — Judge Reinhold

As an actor, you get a bit itchy to do something entirely different. — Lily James

Quentin Tarantino and Sam Jackson are the reasons I'm an actor. — Ato Essandoh

It's, like, sort of a dream thing for an actor when they're told to gain weight. — Bryce Dallas Howard

I never wanted to be an actor. — Moon Bloodgood

I'm really lucky because my goal, as an actor, is to disappear into the characters that I'm playing. — Jessica Chastain

One of the hallmarks that a British actor brings to his public persona is an adept sense of self-deprecation - see Daniel Craig and Damian Lewis. — Stephen Rodrick

People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work. — Gary Ross

Paul Newman is simple not an actor and possibly not even alive. — Dwight Macdonald

As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face. — James Purefoy

I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business. — Becki Newton

I really enjoy being an actor! — Vincent Cassel

I'm an actor, I'm not a comedian, I never was a comedian. — Jonah Hill

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

If an actor is bored, then they are boring to an audience. I definitely don't want to ever be that. — Eva Amurri

That's an amazing gift as an actor - to be able to say I have an audience in so many countries in the world and that people know my work. — Elisabeth Harnois

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on. — Larenz Tate

It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything. — Shari Sebbens

As an actor, I always feel you basically have to be able to delude yourself. — Paul Dano

Reading great dialogue as an actor is such a rare privilege. — Max Casella

What you try to do, as an actor, is just make it work somehow. — Giles Matthey

I didn't grow up wanting to be an actor, and I didn't go to acting school. — Paul Schneider

Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard. — Sandra Oh

I didn't go to L.A. because I wanted to move to California. I went to L.A. to work as an actor. — Bryan Greenberg

As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that. — Angela Bassett

I do like Jason Statham as a person and as an actor. I think he's a great performer, and he delivers every time. — Luke Evans

I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted. — Willie Aames

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor. — Evangeline Lilly

An actor is an expert at being someone else. A speaker is an expert at being themselves. — Olivia

I guess I've always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor. — Alessandro Nivola

Now go. An actor should know when to leave the stage, a poet when the lay is finished, and a bard when it is time to put aside the lute. — Raymond E. Feist

The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor. — Steve Buscemi

As an actor myself, I know we go where the work is, but I think it's sad the Lyric haven't found any homegrown talent. — Ian Beattie

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

The thing as an actor is you get a sense of what a show is like the minute you walk on the set. — David Morrissey

I thought I was going to go back to Stanford, and then I got Election. I loved being an actor. — Reese Witherspoon

I was a bit of a goofball. I was always silly. I think that lends itself to being an actor. — Rob McClure

I didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor. — Jodie Foster

You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question. — Michael Morpurgo

As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business. — Mia Wasikowska

The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous. — Emmanuelle Beart

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile. — Tina Fey

Tim Burton ... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him. — Casper Van Dien

As an actor, I've just gotten insanely lucky. I quite like being surrounded by lots of different talented people lots of different times a year. — Domhnall Gleeson

Do you think he's the murderer?"
"It's worse than that
he's an actor! — Julian Fellowes

I've just gotten to do a lot of very different things, and as an actor, that's what you want. — Lee Norris

My career as an actor started when I was six years old, taking dancing lessons. Then I started getting paid jobs to dance at the age of seven. — Sid Haig

If an actor or actress is recognizable, that changes our perception of them. — Nicolas Winding Refn

As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do. — Corey Feldman

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets. — John Wayne

As an audience member and as an actor I much prefer to find ambiguity. — Michael Fassbender

By the time I had finished my studies at St. Paul's School, I knew I wanted to be an actor. — Alexis Denisof

Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely. — Catherine Deneuve

I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor. — Kevin Nealon

Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That's all an actor is. He's like a serious Bruce Forsyth. — Bob Hoskins

As an actor, you have to get used to being told no, develop a thick skin, and just keep persevering. — Emun Elliott

People keep trying to make me a movie star but they just don't understand. I'm not a movie star, I'm an actor. — Ryan Phillippe

Being a day player, period, is one of the hardest things you can do as an actor. — Bryan Cranston

I think the education I've had as an actor I would never have had at university. — Kristin Kreuk

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it. — Akshay Kumar

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

It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them. — Jean Reno