My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables. – Rainn Wilson
There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it. – Quentin Tarantino
TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I’m the kind of actor that needs to be pushed and have someone on my case a little bit, so I suffer from that. – Rose Byrne
The one time I was an actor, it happened to be in a globally dominant juggernaut. That was lucky. – Sarah Vowell
It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move. – Tony Curtis
I didn’t become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities. – Tom Cruise
I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are something that an average actor would do. – Verne Troyer
I always admired Hugh Jackman as an actor in movies but also in theatre because I’m a big fan of Broadway musicals. – Tao Okamoto
Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is. – Takeshi Kitano
I was never tortured over whether I wanted to become an actor. There was never another option in my mind. – Stephanie Courtney
We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn’t we have a fashion designer as a senator? – Tom Ford
I like Michael Bay a whole lot. And Jerry Bruckheimer. But I love Ben Affleck as a person, as a director, as an actor. – Tom Sizemore
I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. – Steve Buscemi
Being an actor: that’s a pretty big net. That’s a big playing field. The Screen Actors’ Guild is filled with many, many, many, many people and vastly different careers. – Timothy Olyphant