It does make you a better director and a better actor.
Charles Keating

My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job.
Jensen Ackles

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
Patricia Clarkson

Actually, I wanted to be an actor when I was two years old.
Keith David

I was never a celebrity - just a working actor.
Martin Milner

And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.
Ted Shackelford

I feel that I am a good actor.
Burt Lancaster

As an actor, you have to have your history.
Nora Dunn

I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.
Joseph Barbera

I do think I'm a character actor.
Colin Firth

I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.
Stanley Tucci

I am proud to be an actor.
Rod Taylor

No actor ever forgets a role, so I should have realized something was wrong.
Maureen Reagan

Don't just view me as an actor.
Terrence Howard

I knew from the time I could walk that I wanted to be an actor.
Joely Fisher

It's important to do research. I do that in every play, every actor does.
John Gilpin

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.
Donald Pleasence

I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
Elia Kazan

It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your job to do something interesting enough to make them want to get inside the lead character's head.
Tom Selleck

One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.
Wes Anderson