Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
Orson Welles

Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.
Jack Nicholson

I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
Jack Nicholson

I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.
Jack Nicholson

Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.
Jack Nicholson

In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.
Jack Nicholson

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.
Fred Allen

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
Fred Allen

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it.
Jim Carrey

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.
Henry Miller

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.
Adam Sandler

When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.
Adam Sandler

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

Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out.
Norman Rockwell

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
Quentin Tarantino

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.
Quentin Tarantino

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.
Christopher Walken

Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.
Christopher Walken

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.
Christopher Walken

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.
Christopher Walken