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Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess. — Melissa Leo

You want the actor to be happy with the movie. You really want the actor to think they did a good job and all that. — Michael Lehmann

I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. — Kevin Kline

When you're an actor and you walk into a theatre where your movie is playing, you're kinda proud. "Look at my skill!" — James Hetfield

As I write, the President of the United States is a former Hollywood movie actor. — Neil Postman

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

Denzel Washington is a big Hollywood movie star now. But he started out as an actor in the Negro Ensemble company. — Pearl Cleage

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them. — Nicholas Meyer

Ryan Gosling. He was a good kid, good actor. I like him very much. What was the name of the movie? I've forgotten it. Fracture. — Anthony Hopkins

Every end of the day is a great movie and the Sun above is surely the leading actor in this film! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I didn't set out to be a villain in film. I'm a character actor, and if my first movie was a comedy, I could have played a geek just as well. — William Zabka

It wasn't a mission to be a rock star. It wasn't a mission of mine to even be a movie star. I just intended to be a good actor. — Don Johnson

My dad and me were incredibly close. He was an actor, and so him and I shared this whole movie-world thing closer than anyone else in the family. — Jackie Earle Haley

I don't put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and I want to be challenged by the roles I take. — Thandie Newton

Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor. — Montgomery Clift

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

I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star. — Al Pacino

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

Instead of being a theater actor who sometimes does movies I became a movie actor who sometimes does theater. — John Lithgow

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it. — Michael Caine

Even when I was little, people would always ask me if I wanted to be a movie star, and I would always say, 'No, I just want to be an actor.' — Wil Wheaton

You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by you as an actor. — Harold Perrineau

It can never, ever, ever get weird enough for me. — James Spader

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him. — Clint Eastwood

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

You can either be a movie star or an actor. I'm an actor. — James Avery

I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't. — Brion James

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

I felt that I shouldn't be an actor who just makes movie after movie in a quest for prestige and money. — Kevin Spacey

I'll watch a Keanu Reeves movie and I'll go, 'Wow, he's really not a very good actor!' — Ashton Kutcher

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

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

As a young actor, I booked a movie in the U.S. I didn't speak any English at the time, so I learned my lines phonetically when I auditioned for it. — Demian Bichir

Any actor should be grateful if he's remembered for one movie in their lifetime. — Cary Elwes

I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor! — Lyle Lovett

I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star. — Peter O'Toole

Each movie was a challenge for me, as a man, as an actor. After each movie, something changed in my life, in my character ... — Omar Sy

I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment. — Felicity Jones

Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has. — Norman Jewison

Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie. — Harold Ramis

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie. — Matt Damon

One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won't hurt my career. — Joe Pantoliano

The first movie I appeared in was Carry On Cowboy, though not as an actor. I was just riding horses. — Richard O'Brien

To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted. — Kirk Douglas

I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie. — Jesse Eisenberg

As an actor, your motives and your own crazy psyche is really all you're responsible for in the movie. — Kate Beckinsale

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

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

I would like Albert Brooks to have received the Oscars for best actor, best director and best screenplay for 'Modern Romance.' I love that movie. — Andy Kindler

Every actor you learn from, take something from everyone - big actor or not. Whether they're big movie stars or not doesn't really matter. — Diane Kruger

I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I wanted to be an actor. — Billy Bob Thornton

The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months. — Jesse Eisenberg

I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor. — Kirk Douglas

Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century. — Roger Ebert

It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom. — Nicole Sullivan

Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him. — Kevin Bacon

I say I'm the best actor in America who's never done a movie. — Ed O'Neill

If you know the filmmaker is good and the leading actor is a movie star like Diane Lane, you know you're part of something great. — Kevin Connolly

Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium. — Rebecca Romijn

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actor's always an actor until he does a movie-star part. — Lynda Obst

Keanu Reeves is, like, the worst actor I've ever seen. I can't believe he's a movie star. — Juliana Hatfield

I guess it's a kind of a goal for any actor to be the lead of a movie. Not for ego reasons, but because it is creatively the biggest challenge. — Seth Rogen

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits. — Mary Astor

My chosen occupation isn't necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor. — Sarah Gadon

I'm not an American actor. I'm a French actor. I'll continue in France. If I could make another silent movie in America, I'd like to! — Jean Dujardin

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie. — Christopher Walken

I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was ... I always wanted to be a movie actor. — Morgan Freeman

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to. — Vincent D'Onofrio

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

The truth is, ever since I was little, I've wanted to be an actor more than I ever wanted to be a movie star. — Cathy Moriarty

I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do. — Juliette Binoche

What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor. — Conrad Veidt

ARE YOU A MOVIE STAR?
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Everyone wants to label me, but I don't want to be labeled as a rapper or a movie actor. — Riff Raff