Top 1200 Supporting Actor Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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

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

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

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

But what, after all, is faith? It is a state of mind that leads people to believe something - it doesn't matter what - in the total absence of supporting evidence. If there were good supporting evidence then faith would be superfluous, for the evidence would compel us to believe it anyway. It is this that makes the often-parroted claim that 'evolution itself is a matter of faith' so silly. People believe in evolution not because they arbitrarily want to believe it but because of overwhelming, publicly available evidence.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm very grateful that I'm the kind of actor where I'm not some character actor. I can't disappear into a world.

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.

To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'

Bob Duvall is a great actor because each time out, he creates a whole, complete character. You have the feeling that you're not seeing an actor at all, but a fully realized human being. Think of how he was in The Godfather. If you didn't know Bobby, you'd think that he really was Tom, the consigliere. Then you see him in Santini, and he's completely different. He's not only a personality, he's a consummate actor.

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

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

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.

Pransaab was a great character actor. What he has achieved as an actor, I cannot think of achieving even a part of it.

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

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

It is a blessing for any actor to be in a Nitesh Tiwari film. It is every actor's dream to work with him.

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

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

I'm Irish and very proud of being Irish, but as an actor, your extraction should be secondary, really. You should be able to embody whatever character it is, wherever the character comes from. That's always been important, for me. I'm an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor.

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

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

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 don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.

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

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

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.

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

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

To be a working actor in England is a life. I think it's harder in this country. Either you are a superstar or a starving actor.

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

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

It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.

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 never saw myself as an actor. I neither had the looks nor the backing required to be an actor.

I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I'm not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.

My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

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.

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

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

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

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

I recognize how lucky I am as an actor. I've been working as an actor since I was 9 years old.

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

I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.

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

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

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

I made my living as an actor, and I love acting, so I'm an actor. But that gets you in a lot of trouble in the art world.

When an actor comes to you and starts working with the script, the image of his character that you had in your mind gets substituted with an image of that particular actor. And this is the right way to go. An actor has to be absolutely truthful - this is the only thing required of him, apart from talent of course. It's very easy to understand: you need to absolutely believe in what you see.

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.

It is always a pleasure to be directed by an actor because they know the scene from the actor's perspective, too. That's an advantage.

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

For me, an actor is really, first and foremost, a person and an individual, more than they are an actor or a professional.