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I think I would have had trouble living with someone who didn't know what it was like to be an actor.
— Pam Ferris
To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored.
— Catherine Deneuve
I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.
— Peter Sarsgaard
I'm not entirely comfortable saying I'm an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost dorky thing to say you are.
— Seth Rogen
I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take me.
— Bryan Brown
I loved B.I.G., but not like I liked Tupac, because he was an actor, so I related to him.
— Derek Luke
There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.
— Kevin Bacon
As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor.
— Simon McBurney
The way I teach people to sing ... I have them talk the lyric out until it sounds like something they really believe, like an actor with a monologue.
— Margaret Whiting
So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.
— Anthony LaPaglia
Where I come from, you don't just say, 'Oh, I'm going to become an actor.' Talk like that and they think you're crazy.
— Ellen Pompeo
When I grew up, the only way a lad like me would maybe escape was playing football. Not being an actor.
— Sean Harris
Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.
— Nicole Kidman
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
The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'
— Johnny Depp
I felt like I had to prove myself, but I feel that you have to do that anyway, as an actor. You're there to do a job, and that's your primary concern.
— Giles Matthey
I don't ever feel like I'm being an actor.
— Adam Schlesinger
Directing talent is very nebulous. You know, it's not in front of you like an actor's performance.
— Michael Douglas
But I'm an actor and I like to just keep working.
— M. Emmet Walsh
Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's what I like.
— Miles Teller
An actor is like a piece of clay: you just keep moulding me. Even people who work with you every day want to put you in a little box.
— Erika Eleniak
An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.
— George Jean Nathan
I thought 'I can't be an actor, I can't'. Then this film came up and it was like someone saying to me, 'You can, don't give up'.
— Keisha Castle-Hughes
Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.
— Alex Pettyfer
I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.
— Denis Leary
My plan was never to be an actor like my father.
— Alexander Skarsgard
I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
— Taylor Kitsch
I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.
— Kevin Bacon
It took a long time for me to have any impact in the business because I didn't look like an actor, I didn't sound like an actor.
— Brian Dennehy
I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it.
— Steve Buscemi
It feels like I'm an actor in an Italian movie from the '60s, saying the placeholder lines into the camera, waiting for the real ones that come later.
— Lauren Graham
I am really attracted to films. It's nice to do something new, all the time. That's why I like being an actor.
— Jane Levy
It wasn't like a "I know I wanted to do this," I was sort of just - I was five and my dad kinda said hey, you wanna be an actor and I said sure.
— Drake Bell
I always feel like I have to prove myself as an actor, otherwise you get lazy if you're not slightly terrified that you're going to fail all the time.
— Scarlett Johansson
I always think that I'm the best thing in a lot of bad movies. Personally, I have to. I think that I like me as an actor.
— Matthew Lillard
Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.
— Anthony Mackie
I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.
— Alexander Payne
I don't know what it's like to be an actor, where if your show gets canceled, really you're just a bum.
— Louis C.K.
I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
— Karl Urban
I'd like to be wanted for my body, too! As an actor I want to play all different kinds of women - independent women but also very vulnerable women.
— Rachel Weisz
Coming from West Texas at the time that I did, I didn't know you could be an actor. It didn't seem like something that actually happened.
— Deanna Dunagan
Sometimes being an actor is like being some kind of detective where you're on the search for a secret that will unlock the character.
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
An actor is like an instrument, tune them, play them the right way.
— Ricky Schroder
Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.
— Vittorio Gassman
I feel like I was born an actor. I did not pursue acting until I was a bit older. But I got a taste of it at an earlier age in the UK.
— Carmen Ejogo
I have actor friends, but they're not famous. I feel like if you're an actor or - famous, you have to overly prove that you're a normal, cool person.
— Amanda Bynes
When I realized that if I was an actor, I could be any character I wanted instead of just one particular, I was like, 'Wow, that's cool.'
— Orlando Bloom
I feel like I've finally made it as an actor. I've been doing this for years and you don't always make a movie that everybody likes.
— Michael Ealy
I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.
— Jason Patric
Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.
— Cameron Diaz
Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
— Ian Somerhalder
I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.
— Jackie Chan
As an actor, you always want to feel like what you're doing is making a difference to the story.
— Matthew Lewis
If I was to be an actor, I would love to be like peter o'toole.
— Peter O'Toole
People always ask me, 'Hey, what's Matt Damon like?' He's just a dude, just a really good person and one hell of an actor.
— Michael Kelly
I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.
— Barkhad Abdi
Languidly, like an actor repeating a stale part. Anna
— Leo Tolstoy
I've never worked with an actor that I did not like.
— James Gandolfini
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
If an actor is going to be an action hero, do it in a Robert Rodriguez movie, because that guy is going to make you look like a million bucks.
— Freddy Rodriguez
I like it when an actor is secure enough to ask questions, and the director is secure enough not to be threatened by that.
— Paul Haggis
I'm not a famous director yet, and I'm not into fame. I like to just work. As a director, as an actor, whatever people consider me is fine with me.
— Tommy Wiseau
When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, 'I think I heard you say lawyer.'
— Maz Jobrani
As an actor and director, you have to take risks, even though I don't like saying that word. You can make a mistake.
— Jean Dujardin
Well, I made an announcement to my family at 8 that I wanted to be an actor, and I focused like a laser beam on it. I never had a fallback plan.
— Jennifer Carpenter
I think actors get too comfortable. I like being uncomfortable as an actor because it keeps you alive. I don't know, I think it's important.
— Peter Dinklage
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
Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That's all an actor is. He's like a serious Bruce Forsyth.
— Bob Hoskins
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
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
The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.
— Emmanuelle Beart
I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff where they can really lose control.
— Elizabeth Meriwether
I play a crazy talk-show host, but that's not me. It's like an actor playing a role.
— Jerry Springer
I think that any actor - any artist, period - would love to work with an artist like Lee Daniels.
— Jussie Smollett
I don't like getting dressed up. It's hard because as a woman, as an actor, the whole world wants you to enjoy dressing up.
— Andrea Riseborough
I love Michael Keaton. I think he's awesome - he's such an awesome actor - like the 'Beetlejuice' films. I just love that Tim Burton stuff.
— Matt Ryan
As an actor - like an artist - you have to ask, "Why do I choose a certain moment to play something a certain way?" It's organic to who we are.
— Tom Cruise
The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.
— Gerard Depardieu
It's not like every actor needs to train, but an actor will either develop their process through training or through working.
— Emory Cohen
And lot of Asian audiences and reporters don't like me to act as a bad guy. But I think I want to become an actor, I want to try different way.
— Jet Li
I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
— Sam Riley
I think that there's not much point to being an actor if you're not enjoying it, so I try to be picky about roles I do like to go out for.
— Grey Damon
Josh Brolin is an actor that I really, really like; he's fantastic. I worked with him once; he's a really great actor.
— Rob Zombie
I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.
— Maggie Siff
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
I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable.
— David Schwimmer
As an actor, or as a person, I like to do things that are challenging.
— Joanne Froggatt