Acting Reputation Quotes

It's something that I think I'm going to have to fight against for most of my career, for people to take me seriously as an actor as opposed to a good-looking guy. It's not what I want to be known as.

As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am.

Sometimes fake laughing is hard once you've done a scene 18 times. I don't want to brag, but I have a reputation for being very, very good at that. It's funny finding what's challenging about acting as you go.

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.

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it's going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, 'Wow, that movie' - or that show or whatever - 'turned out really well.'

Yeah, I think Michael has had to deal with that label of being Michael Caine for a long time.

As a young actor, I was working much more readily and being offered more things.

I've got quite a big fan base, and people like to see you do the same thing - that's why you get offered the same roles.

If they didn't call you a tough guy, then what else would they call you? Something worse than that? I'm playing parts, and if they call you that, it's because I played the part right.

Sometimes it's hard to get people to take me seriously as an actor when they just see me as this WWE muscle head.

I've been working steadily as an actor since around 1998. I wasn't well known in the public, but I was a dependable working journeyman.

I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.

Eventually, I'd love to be known as a character actor.

I've felt the pressure of wanting to be known as a young actress rather than just Alisha from 'Misfits'.

I am at a stage where I want to be known as a versatile actor.

Sometimes people know I am an actor but are not really sure what I have been in.

If your film and character are a hit, chances are you'll get typecast in that space.

I want people to look at my films and say 'Wow, she's a good actress', and I know I'll have to work hard for that.

I play very sweet characters, so people look at me like I'm the kid from 'The Wonder Years,' rather than Brad Pitt.

I'm not exactly the type of actress who does half a dozen films a year.

There are a lot of weenie American actors, and a lot of foreign actors are having the luck.

A good performance from me - no matter what kind of film it is, or who I'm acting with - will help me get better offers.

I've heard New York actors say Chicago actors intimidate them because apparently we're the real nitty-gritty actors who're in a town where being onstage doesn't necessarily get you anything except your craft.

I think maybe I was instrumental in taking the stereotype out of the Southern actor is some ways. I would hope my legacy would be as a serious actor who told the truth and did parts based on the quality of part and not necessarily the money.

But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless.