Jackie Chan Quotes

As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.

Really, for an actor, it's all about remembering a lot of stuff - and keeping the moustache on.

The only thing an actor can do is, whatever lands on the carpet in the hall, you read it, and if you can't put it down, that's the job to do.

Being an actor is like being a student, and I plan to get top grades.

Being at the Play House, the only way I could see my life was that I would be an actor in a company, doing a lead role one week, a small part the next. That's what I thought I was going to be.

You can't wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater.

The beginning of my acting career was in London, England.

For everybody, the tide comes in, the tide goes out - if you're an actor, particularly.

That's the great thing about being an actor, you know, you can just jump to different jobs.

I like actors - I used to be one.

I'm always looking for a good role.

I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.

Acting has always been my passion.

My Mother is an actress, so it's always been a part of my life.

I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

I'd love to do a drama.

I love to act, and I try to be challenged by what I do.

I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory.

I was into acting as a kid. There was a time when I was 18 that I played the boy in a production of 'Equus' in Oregon, and I thought that was going to be my life.

I would love to have the opportunity to do a play.

From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life.

I started in theatre when I was 13 or 14 years old and did a lot of theatre until my early thirties. Off-Broadway stuff - off-off-off-off-Broadway stuff - and I do love it.

I started acting young, and I was a dramatic actress.

I knew what my scripts would say before I opened them: 'Enter Conchita.' I played handmaidens, Indian squaws, and Mexican dancers.