Nathan Phillips Quotes

A lot of actors think that what we do is so important, like we're saving people's lives or something.

Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.

The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me.

I really do believe that was what I was put on this planet to do: to give to people and, through my performances, show them another world - in the case of '24,' to show them what a politician, black or white, should be. Basically, I wanted to be a service to others.

What people don't realize is that this is the entertainment business.

I do believe that actors have responsibilities.

I think professional wrestling will always be a reflection of how society is.

We're just actors, man, just part of things. We're just doing our jobs, like everyone else does their jobs. The adulation for us is much more because we are always in the public eye. But I never became an actor because I wanted people to scream out my name.

I know that when you do similar kind of films, one after the other, people tend to stereotype and say, 'She is only good at this.'

The first time I did Cake Boss or Ice-T or Andrew Lloyd Webber was on 'Best Week Ever.'

I speak for myself... I am here to tell stories. I'm here to be an actor and not a superstar. If, in the process, that ends up happening, great. But that's not my endgoal.

Show business people aren't vapid.

The second you become an actress, people take the licence to make many assumptions about you. You're in trouble if you interact with a director/actor. You're in even more trouble if you don't. When I started out, a single YouTube comment would make me sad for days, and I'd wonder how people could say such nasty things about me.

I've always considered myself a serious guitar player, but I haven't been really worried about whether the public thought I was. That never was part of my record sales strategy.

I don't admire actors so much, actually.

'All Stars' is a weird game. The rules are weird. However, I think 'All Stars' mirrors the real industry much more closely than normal seasons of 'Drag Race' do. In the real world of entertainment, it really is about the impressions you leave on your brothers and sisters in the room, and that's kind of what it is about.

Soaps are a double-edged sword. There can be prejudice from some writers and producers who feel you will lower the currency of their work if you've been in one. You have to rise above such ludicrous prejudice.

I think that there's a difference between being an entertainer and being an artist.

Taking off my shirt has become a part of my life, whether it is at award ceremonies or reality shows. As long as people enjoy it, why not?

We're in the entertainment business. As much as people would like to say it's sport, it's definitely entertainment.

You can call us what you want, but at the end of the day, we're entertainers.

I love acting, though I don't like the frills around it - red-carpet appearances, dressing up to look a certain way.

I want to delve into the world of performing.

I am an artist who is ready to grab interesting roles that comes my way.

People think that we hired a bunch of actresses and taught them how to wrestle, and that couldn't be further from the truth.