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

Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.
Gary Oldman

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

I know I walk a fine line between being a respected actor and being what they call a sex symbol.
Eva Mendes

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

It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor.
Catherine Deneuve

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 do think I'm a character actor.
Colin Firth

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise.
Lauren Bacall

I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.
Robert Redford

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.
Steve Martin

As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory although that has not been my whole life. That's been a part of it. I think a lot of people associate me with the west because of Sundance.
Robert Redford

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

Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better to keep the two apart. Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate.
Ajay Devgan

I am proud to be an actor.
Rod Taylor

I made a decision that whether or not I was going to make under the national poverty level wasn't going to play a part in whether or not I was an actor. That's what I do.
Don Johnson

I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.
Don Johnson