In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.
Jean Cocteau

I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.
Orlando Bloom

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

I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love.
Orlando Bloom

When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.
Richard Gere

There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.
Richard Gere

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
Alan Rickman

I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
Alan Rickman

There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
Gary Busey

I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.
John Malkovich

I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.
John Candy

I was an actor before becoming a comedian.
Shelley Berman

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
Richard Burton

Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, "What do you want?" Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too.
Nicole Kidman

I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.
Nicole Kidman

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.
Nicole Kidman

You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.
Whoopi Goldberg

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

I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed.
Tim Robbins

I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.
Tim Robbins