Actor's Goal Quotes

When audiences start calling you by your character's names, your job is done!

Like any actor, I want to be able to have a long career and show different characters and a range.

Everybody wants to be a Bond villain. That is the coolest. To be able to portray a Bond villain, that is the feather in any actor's cap.

The most I could hope for is to come and try and develop a character who is interesting, who is interesting to me, who is interesting to fans and who could contribute to the storytelling that is 'Law & Order: SVU.'

When people see me as Gavaskar on screen, I want them to feel that they are looking at the person that they have known and when I play on screen, it should remind them of how he played.

As an actor, I don't want an image. I want people to see the character, not me.

I'm still an actor who wants to work all the time.

I went to a masterclass with Jonathan Pryce who said that a successful actor is not a famous actor, it's an actor who acts. And I have been incredibly fortunate to have worked constantly from the moment I left drama school, so I achieved what I set out to do. I am an actor.

I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.

I only ever wanted to be an actress, not a star.

I think if people stick with 'The Leftovers,' it's a very rewarding viewing experience. I wanted to be part of that - and what a great cast we got. I wanted to be one of those actors, in that show!

I think that's every actor's dream, actually: to play lead parts.

For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.

The biggest compliment I can ever get as an actor is to have someone say, 'We didn't recognize you.'

Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note.

Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's.

My mother asks when I will do some theatre, and there is something about getting your 15 minute call. That is what you become an actor for - performing in front of people and getting the love from the audience.

I want to play many different characters.

Like any other actor, I want to be part of good projects.

The idea of a journeyman actor, people sort of say negatively - "Someone who never made it for real" - [but] I think a journeyman actor is the complete goal.

My main goal as an actor, with my craft or whatever poncy way you want to say it, is to always take the audience with me. To make them feel for me, or to make them hate me, I want a reaction. I want their emotions. The worst reaction someone can have is, "eh."

A lot of people loved to hate my character on 24. I want to be the character people love to love.

As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.

As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience.

If you can mix Hilary Duff and Gary Oldman into the same actor, that's my goal. I know it's strange to think about, but that's the goal.