Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

All I ever cared about was actors - toughest job in this business.

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 do enjoy acting, but it is such a game. So for that reason, I don't think I'll ever leave London.

There's no people like show people.

Part of the privilege of being an actor is the people you get to work with.

I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage.

I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre.

I grew up in a family of actors. I grew up onstage. The choice for me wasn't, 'Do I want to be an actor or not?' I always felt like that's just ingrained in you, the need to perform. The choice was, 'Do you want to do this professionally or not?'

Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.

I don't admire actors so much, actually.

I was a struggling actor all my life.

They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.

I always made a living as an actor when I came to California. I never had to do anything else.

We used to have actresses trying to become stars; now we have stars trying to become actresses.

Did I think I'd ever be in television shows that people would see or movies? No. But I knew that I was going to be an actor.

Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.

I like being around actors. Imagine not liking actors.

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.

Show business is like riding a bicycle - when you fall off, the best thing to do is get up, brush yourself off and get back on again.

I'm not a big Hollywood star. I'm an actor. I'm called a star. That's not what I am. First of all I'm a human being; my profession is acting. People give you titles. They say you're an up and coming star, then they say you're a star, then they say you're a washed-up star. So I don't get caught up in what I'm called. My job, my profession, is acting.

During my early years, I thought I might be a musician. Like most kids, I didn't do what my parents wanted me to do. They were gung-ho that all their kids become actors. They loved showbiz so much. I am a product of nepotism, basically.

I've never been one to shortchange the importance of actors.

I'm living in Los Angeles, I'm in films and I'm on television, and I'm working with actors and telling stories. I'm living the fantasy. My worst day is a great day.

My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.

What does an actor know about politics?