Charlton Heston Quotes

I do enjoy acting, but it is such a game. So for that reason, I don't think I'll ever leave London.

I'm an actor; I'm vain - you want to look good.

Movies are this thing that came into my life, and it still feels pretend in some way. I kind of do this thing, and I never really accepted this idea that I'm a film actor. That's what I do. I feel like I'm a theater actor that started doing films. Most people have never seen me in a play. They're fun, though.

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.

I'm just a character actor.

Acting is a career where you keep learning with every film you do.

I still enjoy acting. I love the moment in front of the camera, but it's all the other moments that I don't enjoy. The 'business' aspect of it, the gossip.

I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.

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

My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'

I discovered that I act because I really love to act. I don't act because maybe it will get me a magazine cover or that I can get on a talk show.

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

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

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

Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.

I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.

But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and it's a very strange one.

So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I'm at a place in my career now where I don't necessarily fret about that too much anymore.

I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.

I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent.

Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.

Great film roles, they always take you to another place. I'd love to do more of that, but I keep doing lots of voiceovers, some TV spots, and some film roles have come along, so I'm okay.

Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.