Henry Rollins Quotes

I wouldn't be an actor if it weren't for the English teacher I had my junior year in high school. She's the one who told me I could be an actor. I had never met an actor, I had never seen a real play, only high school plays. I didn't know actors were real, that it was a real job.

I think of being an actor as a blue-collar profession.

I started as a director, but I was too bored with actors. I preferred to act.

I was the youngest of five, and I think my mother always knew I was meant to be an actress.

I would say only be an actress if you genuinely feel the calling, because it's a tough profession.

I've been on the stage my entire life as an actor.

The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.

I don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.

Acting is an empty and useless profession.

My father was a director, and he used to always tell me, "You should be an actress." When I was 17, he gave me a job so that I'd be in the union.

I am in the theatrical profession myself, my wife is in the theatrical profession, my children are in the theatrical profession.I had a dog that lived and died in it from a puppy; and my chaise-pony goes on, in Timour the Tartar.

You'd be surprised how much being a good actor pays off.

When we think of an actor, we think of a tanned, frosted-tipped, model-looking guy. We don't think of a plumber.

I was born to be actress. If you're supposed to be doing this, you come in knowing it. I truly believe that. And then, of course, you have to let yourself walk the path of it. But I was just always drawn to it.

I wanted at one point to act, which is a weird thing for men to want to do. It's a very vain profession.

Acting is just a job. I'm exactly the same as that lady bringing us coffee, and I have to remember that.

I think that acting is a very humanizing profession.

Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it.

I'd wanted to be [an actress] all my life.

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater

I can't remember a time when I wasn't acting, so I can't imagine what I would do if I stopped now.

I started off doing plays as a theater actor. But I never thought of it in terms of it leading anywhere. I was just trying to be the best actor that I could be in the context of what I was doing.

There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue".

...and there I suddenly found my articulate self in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes and doing all sorts of clever things. And that's when I knew! What other life could there be but that of an actor?

Most actors are very deeply passionate about their line of work. I suppose there are probably people who sell insurance policies that are passionate about it, but I'm thinking the ratio is a little higher for actors. But, I may be wrong.