I've got the best of all worlds. It's every actor's dream to wake up in New York City and go to an acting job rather than to a restaurant to wash dirty dishes. And I live so close to the studios that I ride my bike to work.
Christopher Meloni

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.
Harrison Ford

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
Michael Caine

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

I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
Michael Caine

You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.
Elia Kazan

All I am hoping for is to be able to work - I think my best work is still ahead of me - I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor.
Mickey Rourke

There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep.
Kevin Bacon

I'm just an actor, but if the extra part of it is that I'm helping people or people are being helped by the virtue of what we're doing, then that's just a really nice added extra.
Christopher Meloni

I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.
Helena Bonham Carter

I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't.
Brion James

I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me.
Kevin Bacon

Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
Michael Caine

The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
Harrison Ford

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

As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.
Ice T

As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with where you are in life and career, and I'm very comfortable with what I'm doing - working on projects I'm proud of.
George Clooney

The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do.
Michael Caine

I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did, because I saw how difficult it actually was to do.
Ron Silver

This is a dream come true. To wake up in a place that I own and go to work in New York City as an actor - I feel like Mary Tyler Moore throwing her friggin' hat in the air.
Christopher Meloni