It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I’d become an actor. – James D’arcy
What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it. – James L. Brooks
The first thing I wanted to be was an actor, even before I wanted to be a singer, before I discovered I could sing. – Jimmy Cliff
My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself. – Jonathan Brandis
If there’s anything I’d hate as a son-in-law, it’s an actor; and if there’s anything I think I’d hate worse than an actor as a son-in-law, it’s an English actor. – Joseph P. Kennedy
I think self-criticism is sort of a given when you’re an actor. It’s also about being curious and not being flippant. Anyone who accepts being in this noble profession is automatically self-critical. – James Earl Jones
Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren’t an actor. – Ian Somerhalder
As an actor, if I show up late somewhere or I say something that’s eccentric, it’s totally acceptable – not only that, it’s lauded in some perverse way. – Jesse Eisenberg
My aunt was so attuned to commercials that she could always identify the voiceover actor. – J. K. Simmons
I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor. – James Nesbitt
It wasn’t until I’d turned 50 and had been in the business 25 years that I realized I might actually have a career as an actor. – James Garner
You can’t be vain as an actor. In ‘Ab Fab,’ we were made up as old women with bald wigs and jowly necks, and we looked fantastic. – Joanna Lumley
I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I’m still employed and employable. – John Lithgow
My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn’t audition. It was nepotism all the way. – Jennifer Aniston
I don’t call myself an actor, I call myself an entertainer, because I don’t just do one thing. – John Barrowman
I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends… to just be an actor and still go to the supermarket and not get bothered. – James Purefoy
I’ve always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he’s been in front of the camera. He doesn’t have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise. – Clint Eastwood
