Actor Status Quotes

I've been watching 'Lost' on DVD recently. I keep thinking, 'Where are those actors now?' Nobody knows.

Maybe it's a bit snobby, but it's as if you're a proper actor if you do stage.

You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.

It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.

If you are the kind of guy who draws in 100 million people to see his film, you've got every right to be paid accordingly, but I qualify as a character actor. I don't put a bum on a seat.

Really, the golden egg of doing a series is that you cross that very stupid bridge that says 'Name Actors Only' in casting sessions. All of a sudden, you become a name actor; it gives you marquee value. That's all that a series does.

I don't think there is such a thing as a German movie star. There are respected actors, but we are not publicized like TV people.

I love to read scripts. But I am very happy right now to say that I am a working actor. In this town of Los Angeles, the phrase 'I'm an actor' is overrated. So, I like to say, 'I'm a working actor.'

All common players of interludes [actors] ... other than players belonging to any baron of this realm ... or to be authorized to play under the hand and seal of such baron or personage, shall be adjudged and deemed rogues and vagabonds.

I don't think actors need to go on pedestals. I don't buy it.

My career is weird because it's not like I'm a Liev Schreiber or a Philip Seymour Hoffman, incredibly well-respected theater actors who dabble in TV or film.

I wonder what it was like to be an actor years ago. We're so respected now and I don't think it does us any good. We used to be vagabonds. I want to be a vagabond!

When I was coming up in the '80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor just coming up like I was, or you were an older actor whose career was over and you had to go on television.

In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me.

There's a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you're an actor you're somehow not a member of the crew. You're somehow more special. I hate that.

You know you're an actor in New York when you're on 'SVU.'

Wearing a monkey suit really lets you know where you stand as an actor.

I'm not a wealthy person because I was never a star. I was a working actor and a supporting actor.

To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.

I'm a recognisable actor, but I'm not a bankable actor.