“As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.” JobsOrderActorsIssuesTroubleDirectorsProducersChainsMinoritiesCastingMaking A LivingFood ChainControl IssuesTrouble MakingPecking Order Author:B. D. Wong
“My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor and if fame follows suit, that's fine.” IfsJobsActorsFineBecomingFameSuits Author:Ed Speleers
“Whether youre working in corporate America or youre a journalist, construction worker, a teacher or an actor - were all trying to keep working. If one job is ending, you look for another job. When Psych ends, I will be looking for another job.” IfsTryingLooksEndsJobsAmericaActorsTeacherWorkersCorporateJournalistConstructionCorporate AmericaPsychConstruction Workers Author:Dule Hill
“Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.” IfsStillsEnoughJobsMovingActorsActingTheaterEngagedTicketsStance Author:Ed Asner
“if your subject is an actor, he or she will also be shorter in person than they appear onscreen. This, also, you must keep to yourself. Even if you think you are giving their lack of height a positive spin, you aren't. 'You always seem larger than life in photos, but it's nice to see that in person you're just like us' might seem like a compliment, but what a star hears is 'You're stumpy, and you will lose jobs to taller people.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingPersonsSeemsMightJobsActorsStarsLosesNiceSubjectsHeightComplimentSensitivityLarger Than LifeKeep To Yourself Author:Jancee Dunn
“I just feel that God gave me a certain gift, and that was to go out, do storytelling and be an actor. And my responsibility with that gift is to do the best job possible and to re-create real life.” FeelsRealJobsCertainActorsResponsibilityReal LifeStorytellingDo The BestBest Job Author:Eric Close
“Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.” PersonsJobsActorsCorrelation Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“I think your text [script] is everything; it's what informs you; it's what gives you the given circumstances. Then you take that and you add your own creativity and your own spin on things and you make it personal. That's what makes that character and that text unique to you, when you personalize it. I think that's where your job as an actor comes in.” ThinkingGivingCharacterJobsActorsGivenCreativityCircumstancesUniqueAddScripts Author:Matt Bomer
“Our job as actors, especially in front of a camera, is almost like textile artists. We spend so much time getting the right texture of yarn, and working out the color scheme, and binding off the weave, and making it just right.” JobsArtistActorsFrontsColorCamerasWork OutSchemesTextureBindingYarnTextiles Author:Anthony Heald
“Obviously as a kid, for probably anybody who chose animation voiceover as a career in their adult life, Mel Blanc was the touchstone for everybody. He kind of invented the job and was the first voice actor to get onscreen credit.” FirstsKindKidsJobsActorsVoiceCareersAdultsCreditAnimationTouchstonesMel Blanc Author:Tom Kenny
“As an actor, it's your job to find the way to play a character. I think you can latch on to some things that might have happened.” ThinkingWayPlayCharacterMightJobsActorsHappenedLatches Author:Justin Timberlake
“I was a terrible actor, and that's why I got the job: I would allow myself to be so bad that I lowered and got down to WWF standards.” JobsActorsTerribleStandardsWwf Author:Kurt Fuller