Top 1200 Working Actor Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I was still living at home.

I wanted to be a working actor, but I like being anonymous. So to me, voice work was the way to go.

My story about becoming an actor is a completely non-romantic one. I became an actor because my parents were actors, and it seemed like a very... I knew I was going to act all my life, but I didn't know that I was going to be a professional actor. I thought I was just going to work as an actor every now and then.

I enjoy working with Prakash Jha. An actor prospers if he or she gets a chance to work with him.

Working with animals forces an actor to work harder because you have to be quick when it comes to improvisation, and you can't break character - at all.

When you're working with an actor who's prepared and brings it when you need it, it's just a very validating creative experience.

Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.

I don't want to be a luvvie actor. It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional actor, and that, actually, I make a living out of this.

Working with any senior actor is a learning experience, so getting to work with a thespian like Kamal Hassan was a memorable one.

I became an actor kind of by accident. I was in musical theater and I got a job as an actor in a play and kept going. But I never set out to be an actor; it happened over time.

'Wings' offered me the rare opportunity to be a full-time dad and a working actor for eight years.

Being large and muscular, you are not taken very seriously as an actor. When bigger roles come up and the actor needs to be muscular they tend to cast a regular sized actor and get him to hit the weight program as opposed to hiring an actor who's already muscular and developed in that area.

An actor gets to take a nap, but the director is working hard from dawn till midnight. I'm kind of lazy.

Inevitably, when a scene isn't working for me, it's because I'm being self-conscious, and I'm not putting enough of my focus on my fellow actor.

I always enjoyed singing and working with the late Kishore Kumar. He was a legendary playback singer, an actor, and a producer/director.

Working with a great director is wonderful for an actor because it means that you're not forced to take the advice of an idiot.

No one's of Pakistani origin in any British show. That's why every actor of color is here working in the States. It's true.

When I first set out to do it, I wanted to be a working actor, and now it seems like it's superseded even my dreams.

I remember hearing a good story about Jack Nicholson working with Stanley Kubrick on The Shining [1980]. Nicholson was saying that, as an actor, you always want to try to make things real. And believable. When he was working with Kubrick, he finished a take and said, "I feel like that was real." And Kubrick said, "Yes, it's real, but it's not interesting".

I always thought the leading actor should be the best supporting actor, because you're the only person that can help every other actor on the set.

To be honest, I would have to say that there was a certain burden in working with Arnold, a big action star. I am aware that Arnold is loved by the American audience, but rather than focusing on working with Arnold, what I focused on was expressing the character, Sheriff Owens, through Arnold the actor and knowing that Arnold and my idea about Sheriff Owens coincided and that it was about Owens protecting a certain value and justice, I focused more on that aspect that helped me to be more comfortable in working with Arnold.

Emma Watson is my kids' favorite actor on the planet. They never took me more seriously than when I was working with her.

I think one of the main differences between being an English actor and being an American actor is that we have things like the class system in England.I'm middle class. But I've got what some people might consider to be a working-class accent, so you've got those sorts of elements in this country to consider, which, in America, exist, but not necessarily in the same way.

I don't think I'm that much different from any other working actor that's trying to make a living.

As an actor, the experience that I have as a politician while sitting in Parliament - that helps me enrich myself as an actor. But I am an actor first.

When I met Penn, he was an actor, but he wasn't working, and he wasn't sure if he wanted to go back to work, and I was kind of into that!

My family was always very supportive. Whether you're an actor or not, everybody hears the horror stories of people going to L.A. and trying to be an actor, and their dreams are crushed, and they end up working for the IRS. So they were always protective to the point that they wanted me to have a backup plan, which is understandable, but there was always something inside of me that knew: backup plan, schmackup plan.

I look forward to working with Ken Olin, whose work as an actor and director I have always admired.

For me, the most important thing is that I feel comfortable with the actor that I'm working with and I'm able to talk to them.

I want to be an actor, maybe a comic actor but a real actor.

I think there's a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They're all three different things.

I stand to learn more working as an actor with really talented people than I do by directing a feature.

And being an actor already means that working with cast as a director, I have a clear understanding of their position and that collaboration is great and useful.

An actor can be as talented as another, but if he doesn't stick to what the director's intentions are, it all falls down. I adore working with actors.

Nothing is harder than working with an actor who doesn't take it seriously or show up in the same way that you are.

When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.

I wasn't thinking about awards or becoming rich. I just wanted to be able to make my living by working as an actor.

The best way to tell an actor he's going to be working more and much harder is to appeal to his ego.

When you're a working actor you see a lot of scripts all the time, but to get to do something that's really well written it's a rare privilege.

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.

I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.

As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie.

I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.

There's a perception in the industry that if the actor is not working or has taken a timeout, he or she has left the film circuit.

Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director.

I've had ups and downs but always maintained I was a working actor, which is a beautiful thing.

I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor.

Working with Kajol was a delight, as we complemented each other. She is a seasoned actor, and there is so much to learn from her.

I think any actor just wants to keep working, and for me, I want to work on projects that are with fun people.

Only a good actor has an edge over a weak actor. A hardworking actor has an edge over a lazy actor. Nationality has nothing to do with it.

The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.

Chadwick Boseman work as an actor, I think, is truly remarkable, and I had a great time working with him.

My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.

You know how it is in L.A. You go to restaurants at four in the afternoon, and they're packed because everyone is an actor, and no one is working.

I worked at Starbucks, I was a waiter, a bartender and a valet, sometimes working 2 to 3 jobs at a time while getting a lot of 'no's' as an actor.

Working in theater, film, or television are three different jobs for an actor, and I accept them as such.

I learned so much from my life as an actor, as a kid actor through being an adult actor, and then becoming a writer and producer and doing animation.

As an actor, one is so appreciative when one is working. I think I am lucky that I have the opportunity to work having that total dependence on an external validation.

I always wanted to be an actor. My first professional job was at 19, working in New York theater.

I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.