Estelle Parsons Quotes

I've still got lots of writing in me. I have not left journalism, but I put it on hold to focus on acting. I love actors. I think it's a crazy thing to do with your life, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them.

People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.

I grew up with actors, so I never thought of them as anything but human - sort of horribly, inextricably human.

As an actor, you're in the hands of producers and directors. It's important to find out who you're working with.

I just felt like actors - I watched a lot of 'SNL,' and those guys just seemed like they were superheroes - that that wasn't a reality for anyone other than people with superhuman strength. So, I mean, I acted a little bit in high school, but the idea of doing it professionally was just never really an option.

I'm a character actor, so as a character actor, I'm always looking for something interesting.

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.

Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.

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

I may be a B-movie star, but I work. I'm an actor.

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

I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion.

As an actor, you're always reading scripts looking for something good.

I love being challenged physically, as an actress.

I became a professional actor in Detroit and I was able to earn some money. It was a good job because it permitted me to study. It fit perfectly with school.

Most of the characters I play are heavily engulfed in some sort of fantasy world.

I played a lot of serious parts in a lot of TV movies and early miniseries but what happens is that you get sort of locked into "Oh no, he's a serious actor." Well, I was a serious actor for nine years or 10 years and then I get into comedy and everybody said, "Oh no, he's funny. He can do comedy," and then all of a sudden, you're just a comedy guy.

I've always wanted to be an actor. I didn't get into this game to be the best improviser in the world. I didn't choose improv as a stepping stone, it just happened to become one.

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

Yeah, I am a character actor.

Joan Crawford is a movie star. I am an actress.

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

It's an enormous relief to go to work and be an actor and not be worried about writing.

Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor.

My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one in charge of the words.