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

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.
Chuck Norris

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

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
Meryl Streep

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
Meryl Streep

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

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
Hedy Lamarr

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.
Bob Hope

I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more.
Ryan Gosling

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

The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro , like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.
Jackie Chan

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

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

When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
Kate Moss

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

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
James Dean