Melanie Griffith Quotes

I am very sensitive and get emotional.

I think of being an actor as a blue-collar profession.

That's part of being an artist; you have to be that sensitive.

I've been on the stage my entire life as an actor.

I slowly came to realize that this job of being an actor, you spend most of your time looking for work. That is your job. Your job is auditioning. You spend very little of your time actually working.

I'm an actor, I'm always looking for work. I was born to do that.

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch.

We're actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself.

At the end of the day, what actors really want to do is act a lot and not wait around in the trailer.

I don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.

I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor.

Part of what's cool about being an actor or being in this industry, frankly, is to be able to travel to distant lands. That's part of the deal. I always thought when I was growing up, "I wanna be an actor and go see the world.'

As an actor, you’ve got to live and learn, and you gotta just kind of form a hard shell and be confident in yourself.

If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights.

When you're an actor, you show up and it's wonderful because you're in the world of make-believe.

I think there are a lot of actors who act because they have an impulse to do it and they can't ignore it.

I hate being an actor, they dress you and put on your makeup and you just feel like a little baby.

I was trained to be an actor, not a star.

Actor is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven't really experienced any of that. Everyone's been really happy for me, which is really, really great.

Instead of being a theater actor who sometimes does movies I became a movie actor who sometimes does theater.

The thing is, that great actors are everywhere. They're everywhere. They're doing good parts on television. They're doing television commercials. They're doing local theater. There are so few opportunities.

It's good to feel tired at the end of the day. It's not often as an actor that you're like, "Oof. Ow. I feel like I've been out working."

We're all human and life is complicated.

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.

Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.