David Walton Quotes

It's funny how being an actor forces you to do things or go places that you wouldn't ordinarily.

The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that.

Acting is such a strange, vague profession, but my kids know it's hard labour.

My journey has been that of a character actor.

Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.

Being actors is a strange job.

If you're not acting, you're not an actor.

When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems very exciting. It's only later that you begin to realize how fascinating the work is - that it's a bottomless pit, and you never get to the end of it.

I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.

The thing I like a lot about acting is I'll never learn enough. I'll never know it inside and out.

Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.

You just suddenly think that there's something quite childish about acting. Basically, it's pretending, isn't it? It's good fun and I enjoy it, but it's a funny way of making a living, particularly when you make a very good wage, as I've been fortunate enough to do.

I feel like I've always been an actor.

I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.

There's nothing obvious or predictable in acting. That's what it means to be in this profession.

As far as I'm concerned... there's a side to an actor that wants to go on and play a thousand different roles.

It's the life of an actor to always be questioning, always be wondering. There is no occupation in the world less dependable.

I still say I have no interest in being an actor - I just love acting.

I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.

One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.

I don't have an exact moment when I decided I wanted to be an actress - it kind of was just really a part of my growing up.

I don't think of myself as an actress. I still think I'm fannying around in my mum's front room.

Acting is a youthful profession.

I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.

I think as an actor you want to keep being challenged.