Top 1200 Character Actor Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I am not a method actor. I would call myself a spontaneous actor.

I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.'

I think if an actor is not able to pronounce their own dialogues, no matter what language, you are not an actor.

I just always wanted to be an actor. I don't remember ever not wanting to be an actor.

I think I am a good actor myself. If I wasn't a director, I would have been an actor.

Every job I've done so far, every character has been completely different, and that's really important to me because I don't want to fall into a stereotypical box. Of course, every actor has their box, and you have to respect and play for it, but I do love challenging myself.

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

When I debut on television with 'Meri Awaaz Hi Pehchaan Hai,' there were a lot of things that I experienced as an actor and felt that one could get into more nuances in terms of characterization. At the end of it, I wept non-stop for 15 minutes to get out of that character. It was that kind of emotional bond.

The muscularly developed actor is not seen as a serious actor although he should be seen as a serious actor because he has been preparing for these muscular roles his entire life. If you can dedicate years of your life to hitting the gym and dieting and eating right you can definitely take a movie role seriously.

Where do I fit in? That's something I think about as an actor, especially as an actor from a minority community.

I'm not an actor. Lord knows, I'd be acting if I were an actor. What you see is what you get.

People either think Hodor is a very easy character to play or a very difficult one; there's no in between. But it's a lot of fun having to completely switch personalities inside four seconds, with no words. That's a joy for an actor to get to show all that complex emotion in such a short space of time.

Let's not forget that I am an actor and I'm a real budding, enthusiastic and ambitious actor.

The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.

Of course, every actor has their box and you have to respect and play for it, but I do love challenging myself. I love every role to be new, and I always like to bring a freshness to every character I play.

When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.

Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.

I realize how much I rely on the actors to really know the lines because I tend to forget what they are exactly, even though I've written them. I don't have them memorized. But when it's going well, there is that point where the actor starts to know more about the character than I do.

I'm not a wealthy person because I was never a star. I was a working actor and a supporting actor.

I am not a bad actor but a smart actor and I have exhausted my smartness now.

I'm a character actor. Nobody's ever seemed to think of me as a leading man. I'm 6'6''. I've got a big nose. I'm gangly. I've got crooked teeth. That's certainly not Brad Pitt. I'm still around and alive, so if they need older guys, I guess they're thinking of me.

I was hesitant to do 'Mulan II.' For me, I felt like the story that needed to be told, this legendary character of Mulan, was already encompassed in the first movie, and I was worried they would try to create this crazy cartoon character out of this legendary character of China.

It's very much a character-based play. Conor's writing is almost musical and paints pictures at the same time. It's a joy as an actor to be able to say the words. It's very conversational but at the same time, tells a story.

In other words, character is far more important than intellect to the race as to the individual. We need intellect, and there is no reason why we should not have it together with character; but if we must choose between the two we choose character without a moment's hesitation.

I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.

I don't see myself as a 'black actor,' I'm just Shemar Moore the actor.

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

The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor.

My general view is that best actor best suited to role should get the job. Obviously when it comes to colour and issues of ethnicity the choice is clear. But I do not believe you have to be transgender or have undergone sex reassignment surgery to be able play a character who has.Acting is acting after all.

Given the choice between 'actor' and 'actress,' 'actor' is a non-gendered word that I use.

Sometimes, as an actor - and I've witnessed this with other actors that I've worked with - you don't realize that it's not all about the actor.

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

I was always a supporting actor. It is nice to know one has the equipment to be a leading actor.

Nothing is off the table... never for an actor. An actor is continuously looking for challenges.

As an actor, I don't really think you find yourself. I mean, once you find yourself, I think it becomes boring and you become set in your ways. I think, as an actor I think it's not a bad thing but more of a gift. It's something you're always doing as an actor. You're adjusting constantly.

It is very difficult for an actor to replace another actor who has already created an image.

I feel like I'm more of a physical actor than a voice actor.

I don't even know if people are familiar with my name as an actor. It's not as if I ever was an über-famous actor.

I'm not an actor. I can show up for friends and improvise a little bit, but I'm not an actor.

I'm not an actor. I can show up for friends and improvise a little bit, but I'm not an actor. I can't remember lines.

As a director, what matters is how you penetrate the soul of the person in front of the camera and let the actor blur the boundaries between the character and the person themselves. In order to achieve that, I try to make people feel at ease, to be mindless of problems and be skinless and give everything to the camera.

For an actor to be working at all is a kind of miracle, because most actors aren't. So it's just silly for a working actor to say, 'Oh, I don't care if anybody knows I'm gay' especially if you're a leading man. Personally, I wouldn't advise a gay leading man-type actor to come out.

I believe life experiences are what an actor needs to relate to the character roles they take on, and to say the least, I've had many experiences leading up to this moment. Not only have my experiences become a tremendous asset in my acting, but also they helped me discover who I am and who I want to be.

With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person.

I was never an ingenue. I've always just been a character actor. When I was younger, it was a real problem, because I was never pretty enough. It was hard, not just for the lack of work, but because you have to face up to how people are looking at you.

Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor.

I've wanted to be an actor since I was six, and I'm going to be an actor until I'm 66.

Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance.

If I weren't an actor, I would have been a bad actor because this is where I belong. This is my love and my passion.

You adjust what you do depending on the actor. You evolve a vocabulary and a way of language and talking with each actor.

I went to a foreign country as a Japanese actor, not a Hollywood actor. This takes courage.

I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.

When I'm trying to imagine something, I have a few elements, a few ideas, maybe a certain actor or actress I want to create a certain type of character for, or maybe a certain place.

As an actor, sometimes you've gotta take the jobs that you may not want to do. It's so hard to work as an actor.

My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.

Well, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn't necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.

My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.

As an actor, you can't say, "I'm going to try to be cool at all cost when I do this," because that's the opposite of what you need to do as an actor.