Actor Credibility Quotes

I have not been taken seriously as an actor.

The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing.

It's harder for someone like a singer to prove they can be an actor because people immediately want to say, 'Oh, he's no good.'

Woody Allen is a better actor than anybody from the Actors Studio, and he can be anybody he says he is.

It used to be that you could do these nuggets of a movie and it would attach itself in terms of credibility to your work and the style of work that you did, that people would be interested and curious about you and your work as an actor.

One would expect an actress to stand onscreen mostly as a caricature. If she would say, "I'm selling shoes," you would believe her. She says it and it creates this fiction, non-fiction perception of the film. People believe it because she says it. If she said, "I'm a butcher," people would believe it too, I think.

I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because they've been on reality TV or something.

When the script for 'The Wrestler' kept coming to me I said, This movie is so good if you put me in the film as a wrestler people are going to say, 'No credibility, Hulk Hogan isn't a good actor,' whatever Hollywood thinks of me.

I don't know - the whole leading man, I don't buy it.

It feels as though a very disproportionate number of main characters are writers, because that's what the writer knows. Fair enough. But nothing bothers me more in a movie than an actor playing a writer, and you just know he's not a writer. Writers recognize other writers. Ethan Hawke is too hot to be a writer.

I'd always had the concern that being in commercials would affect my credibility when I was getting started as a TV and film actor.

Foremost is the casting; you need convincing faces. Most of our films suffer from casting.

I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed.

When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it.

I plan on having the credibility and integrity of being a part of an entertainment news program like 'E!,' in addition to being on the actor side as well.

If an L.A. actor is a star or a good face, and they want to get cred by doing a serious Shakespeare play, they will come to New York first.

There are certain filmmakers I'd like to work with that I don't think would take a risk with me, because I could be distracting in their film. It'll take a couple films to prove to them that it's worth the risk.