Actors Quotes - Page 53

My first review for the TV movie The Bionic Showdown said I was as interesting as a bus ride.

Kelsey Grammer is one of the best actors I've ever worked with.

I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.

I don't get the point in a lot of biopics, they're boring. You know what's gonna happen. You're just watching actors show off.

I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.

That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.

I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.

Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.

I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.

When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like youre in the way.

Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.

I've always wanted to be an actor that explores different genres and different characters.

I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.

It's no good being the best actor in the world if nobody sees you because you didn't happen to be there at the right day when a part was being cast.

Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.

You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.

One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.

I am proud to be an actor.

I did well as an actor in Australia, and then Paramount invited me over... to have a look at me.

If it sounds good as you say it, likely as not it'll sound good when an actor's saying it.

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.