You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.
Whoopi Goldberg

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.
Whoopi Goldberg

There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.
Maggie Smith

If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero.
Vin Diesel

I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality.
Christina Ricci

The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.
Vin Diesel

I'm a rapper trying to be an actor.
Method Man

When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.
Charlotte Whitton

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.
Keanu Reeves

I've been a very lucky actor.
Bob Newhart

Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor.
Harvey Korman

When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.
Patrick Dempsey

I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.
Kim Cattrall

I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type of guy. That's why I thought the stage is just right for me.
Ed O'Neill

So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.
Henry Rollins

I was an actor before becoming a comedian.
Shelley Berman

So I was at the Actor's Studio, thinking about this, and I happened to glance over to the other side of the stage and I saw the ugliest chair I have ever seen. And I thought, 'Well, I could kill that chair!'
Ellen Burstyn

I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor.
Richard Donner

Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry.
James McAvoy

I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.
James McAvoy