Russell Johnson Quotes

I guess Johnny Depp has a pretty good career. I love a lot of parts that actors have played, so I love pieces of their career, but it's pretty hard to look at an actor's whole career and go, 'That was awesome!' Usually it either ends on a crappy show or with no work at all.

I'm certainly not going to play any of Matt Damon's roles in the future. But he will eventually grow into mine, since he'll be around for a long time.

Character actors have a long shelf life.

You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.

I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

I graduated college in 1983, so that's 32 years, and all I've done for a living is act or commercials or voiceovers. So I have nothing to complain about.

I have actor friends, but they're not famous. I feel like if you're an actor or - famous, you have to overly prove that you're a normal, cool person.

I don't know what it's like to be an actor, where if your show gets canceled, really you're just a bum.

But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor.

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star.

I'm an actress, and that's why I'm still here. Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding themselves.

Julianne Moore and Michael Keaton began in 1980s soap operas and 1970s sitcoms, respectively, such ancient history by show business standards that you need carbon dating to measure their careers.

Acting is the most wildly overpaid position imaginable.

I think there's a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They're all three different things.

The whole celebrity culture is super weird, but I'm part of it for some reason, and you kind of have to be as an actor to be successful.

Let's just say I like acting, but not necessarily all the stuff that comes with it.

I have friends who are movie stars, and I think it's just as hard a job as being a working actor. But it's a different job, and it's not the one I want.

I wasn't some sort of ingenue. I always saw myself as a lifer in this industry, and working as an actor on 'Wonder Years' was a first act.

I didn't really think about being a movie star. I was more about theater.

I know many actresses who started big but were sent packing, as they couldn't sustain the momentum. I am in this for the long haul.

I am a tip-top starlet. That is my job that I am paid to do.

I have been in this industry for over a decade, and I still don't consider myself a movie star.

I feel very, very lucky to have been involved with a project that's gone on as long as 'The Closer' has. You really don't get to do that in this profession.

I think every star was a new actor at one point of time.