Actor's Job Quotes

The transition from TV to films wasn't overwhelming, since an actor's ultimate job is to act.

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

I think it's an actor's job, if you can, to keep working and to keep using that muscle. First of all, you've got to pay the bills, but it also helps you develop.

When you get to work with a good director, an actor's job gets reduced to half.

I don't resent being identified with B science fiction movies at all -why should I? Even though they were not considered top of the line, for those people that like sci-fi, I guess they were fun. My whole feeling about working as an actor is, if I give anybody any enjoyment, I'm doing my job, and that's what counts.

As an actor, I'm always just so pumped when I get any job. To be a working actor takes a lot of luck.

As an actor, it's my job to prepare myself for a role. If the character is realistic, one can't go wrong.

As an actor it's your job to empathise with your character regardless of whether they have a different sexual orientation, spiritual beliefs, or anything.

'Twin Peaks' was the best job I ever had as an actor.

I don't understand when people say character actors. You either have the protagonist or the antagonist and I've played both. It's an actor's role to play a character. Does that mean that main stream heroes and heroines are characterless?

As an actor, I know it is my job to shape myself for a role - any role.

Somebody said something really smart: It's like you end up being the defense attorney for your role. Your job is to defend their point of view. You're fighting for what they want. You learn that in acting school - it's Acting 1A: 'What do you want? What's in the way?'

Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living.

As a professional actor, you have to do a lot of things and a steamy number is just one of them.

As an actor, my job is to go to the set, read my scene and perform to the best of my abilities.

People always ask about learning all of your lines as an actor, and it's generally the easiest part of the job.

My job in 'Motive' is to be the rebellious teenager - what boy wouldn't want to be that?

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

One of the fun things as an actor is to find a character that if you were to look up a rap sheet about them, you might say, 'I don't really necessarily want to hang out with this guy' or 'I would never be this kind of guy in my life.' I think it's part of an actor's job to say, 'Maybe you could be.'

We're all part of movie and we're all incredibly and equally important but it is your actor's job to perform and to deliver.

Part of an actor's job is to draw up a back story.

If they're going to cast one person and not another, it's not rejection of your talent, it's just that they want one person and not someone else. As an actor, unfortunately, it's not your job to cast the movie.

I only have an awareness of what I'm trying to achieve as an actor and what my job as the character is to service.

It's my job as a supporting actor - which I usually am - to support the film: to make 1, 2, or 3 on the call sheet look good.

As an actor for hire, my job is to do some pre-production work for myself. Then my job is to show up and give the best performance I can.