Kevin Nealon Quotes

I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

I'm a journeyman actor.

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

Being actors is a strange job.

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.

It's what actors call a big, juicy part, when you're a leading man. I don't get a lot of those. I get a lot of supporting things.

Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.

I read so many scripts, and it's not really exciting to just be the girlfriend.

Like any other actor, I want to work with good directors, and I always look for good scripts. I've had to say no to some people; I suspect that's the reason I'm called arrogant.

Dustin Hoffman said this one time, that if he hadn't made it as a film star, he would still be happy as a character actor because he was a character actor because of his face from day one, so he would always work in the theater.

As an actor if you're working you're usually in three places, you're either prepping something, you're shooting something, or you're post on something or promoting something.

Only a few of us will admit it, but actors will sometimes read a script like this: bullshit...bullshit...my part...blah, blah, blah...my part...bullshit.

I'm getting good offers, as good as ever sometimes. I just finished a thing with Billy Bob Thornton that was the most unique part I've ever played in my life, in the most unique project.

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

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

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

By being a waiter 100 percent, I think I was a lot like any other actor in New York. I had credits because I'd work lunches during the week, and then on a Wednesday would go be lucky enough to be in a movie like 'Kinsey.'

I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.

I've been fortunate to get involved with 'Short Term 12.' I was just a young teenager on the Internet, clicking on anything that had the word 'actor' in it. One day, someone called me in for a movie audition.

I didn't want to do film or commercials or television.

I don't know if I see myself as an actress for the rest of my life.

I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work your acting chops and build a reel.

As an actor, you don't have control over what you do, whom you work with.

Being an actor is really, really hard, no matter how you slice it.