Actor Quotes

The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.

When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, "This is what I love doing, and I hope I'm going to be able to do it forever."

Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

I'm not that person, ... I'm a storyteller. I'm an entertainer. I'm an actor. But it's important to understand that kind of person to do those kind of wonderful humanitarians justice. I really tried to get into their skin. I met people in Africa out in the field who possess that kind of dedication. I tried to absorb who they were in order to understand them and hopefully portray that kind of passion and commitment in my performance.

You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.".

It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor.

My belief in God is responsible for what I am... How can I refuse to talk about something which is so much a prt of my life both as a man and as a actor?

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.

For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

Look at someone like Edward Norton. A truly phenomenal actor. He's definitely went to school and trained.

Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.

Now that was one thing, but from an actor's point of view, this poor young man, crying from the moment I opened the door to the moment he left. Now if an actor did that they would say he's over-acting.

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor.

I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.

It's actually really great to be a student and an actor, because I get to do this job that I love, then just when I think my head might explode, I get to go to school where they don't really care about what magazine cover I'm on.

I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.