Martin Clunes Quotes

Actor's life is very long.

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

I think the reason I got into it is because you get to be someone else. There are, like, two percent of people in the actors' union who actually make money off of it, so I feel very blessed to be here.

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

I think of myself as an actor.

The very first audition, you just go in and sing. The second one, they give you this sort of cheapy, Walmart-looking puppet - before they give you the $6,500 'Avenue Q' puppet.

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

I was a stage-struck child from about 5 years onward.

As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention.

An actor has to embody a role.

I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

When I'm playing a character, I don't wear perfume.

So I just play the character, I play the lines.

When you're on set, you have to perform and look the part.

In live stage, the actor lives.

As an actor, you don't have much choice about your appearance. It's a good excuse for looking ridiculous.

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

I play a crazy talk-show host, but that's not me. It's like an actor playing a role.

Well, I was a drama kid.

Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.

If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

I wanted to become an actor so I didn't have to put on a suit and sell insurance.

When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like.