You are always damned by things that you do well as an actor.
Christine Baranski

But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
Vincent D'Onofrio

I'd wanted to be an actor from the age of five.
Ron Moody

I'm an actor. It's my job.
Brittany Murphy

I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
Elia Kazan

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
Elia Kazan

But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have a job - and you are working with heavyweights, working with the best guys in TV, it's pretty cool. Exhausting, but cool.
Christopher Meloni

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

The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.
Elia Kazan

When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.
Elia Kazan

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 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 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

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.
Patrick Warburton

I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
Elia Kazan

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.
Griffin Dunne

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

One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.
Sam Mendes

I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed.
Lionel Barrymore