Nicolas Cage Quotes

I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'

I've been auditioning since I was 7 years old.

I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.

I was 42 when I started to make my living as an actor.

Bipasha is a very sincere and professional actor.

I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.

Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living.

I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.

As an actor, I was just satisfied to work.

When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous.

I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years.

You have to act like a responsible professional in the industry regardless of your age.

Being professional is just really clearly the way to go and helps you on the road to longevity.

I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.

You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

I don't know so much about making it, because I think of myself as a working actor who's always got my eye on what's going to be the next job. I've been acting for 22 years, and I think there's something to be said for simply staying in the game.

When I got into drama school, that's when I knew that I could safely say that I wanted to be a professional actor.

I myself started out quite young; when you're working, professionally, even if you are in your teens, you just want to be treated the same as everybody else. You just want people to see you as an actor and not as a kid.

I studied drama in high school, and when I was 18, I studied at the Actors Studio in New York. Then I moved to London when I got engaged to Bryan Ferry, and I studied at the National Theatre there.

All I really wanted to be was a working actor.

I got my degree in acting and theater, and then I had a teacher who told me to take a class with The Groundlings. And for a second, I thought, 'Well, I don't know about that. I'm a serious actress.' And then I did, and I loved it, and I said, 'Ah, well, I guess this is what I'm going to do now.'

Many people say that theatre has no money, but it has been the stepping stone for the best film actors of our times like Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Paresh Rawal, etc.

The theatre training is second to none in Ireland and England. You meet people who haven't had theatre training - it is harder for people who worked in TV to go into theatre than the other way around.

I left drama school in the early '50s.

After my schooling, I started theatre. By the time I graduated, I was doing theatre 24x7. Luckily, the FTII (Film and Television Institute of India) acting course started.