“An actor's career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.” ActorsCareersLuckRelyRight TimeRight Place Author:Parker Posey
“Im a career actor. And I question this constant reliance on TV fame and celebrity.” ActorsCareersTvsFameConstantReliance Author:Alexander Hanson
“During my career as a standup and actor, I realized it was very frustrating for me to get hired because Hollywood was hiring a different kind of brother, you know, and I was doing political humor... In order for me to really have a long career, I'm going to have to learn how to write and produce for myself... I had no idea I was really going to like it and I'm very fortunate to be successful. But the idea was to always eventually create something for myself. That was the idea from the beginning when I went into writing and producing.” KnowsWritingKindLongIdeasDifferentPoliticalOrderActorsCareersSuccessfulProduceBrotherHollywoodI RealizedNo IdeaFortunateBeing SuccessfulDifferent KindsFrustratingHiringPolitical HumorLong Careers Author:Larry Wilmore
“It started off for me as just wanting to be an actor and sort of resenting in a weird way being expected to write as well as be a comedian and an improviser. And then you think about it for a minute, and I smartened up and realized that the only way to sustain a career is to generate your own material. Or to be in control of your career as best you can. And in allowing yourself to do that it opens up a whole new world of possibilities. And then you're like "Oh, producing is a thing."” ThinkingWorldWayWritingWellsWholeActorsCareersMinutesPossibilityMaterialsExpectedComedianAllowingNew World Author:Rob Corddry
“The most important thing to having a long career, as an actor, is diversity and being able to play different types of characters in different types of movies. I want to keep acting, all my life. In order to do that, I think it is important to go and do the bigger tentpole box office movies, and then also do more character roles.” ThinkingWantLongImportantDifferentPlayCharacterAbleOrderActorsActingCareersRolesTypeOfficeDiversityBiggerImportant ThingsBoxesBox OfficeLong Careers Author:Josh Hutcherson
“I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career.” ActorsCareers Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“You always absorb a lot from a great actor. What you want, as an actor, no matter where you are in your career, is a partner who's going to bring everything they have to the scene.” WantMatterActorsCareersSceneWhat You WantPartnersWhere You AreGreat Actors Author:Julianne Moore
“Everybody always feels that they're right even if they're wrong and that's what a whole actor's career is built around rationalizing your way into whatever character you're playing.” IfsWayFeelsWholeCharacterActorsCareersBuilt Author:Clint Eastwood
“I know a lot of actors who started out as musicians and have very successful careers as actors, but most people don't know them as musicians.” PeopleKnowsActorsCareersSuccessfulMusicianSuccessful Career Author:Rick Springfield
“A female's career as an actor is very different from a male's career as an actor. That's just the way it is. So, I'm fascinated by really strong male careers that have inspired me, and also really incredible male roles.” WayDifferentActorsStrongCareersRolesFemaleInspiredMalesIncrediblesFascinated Author:Abbie Cornish
“Some of the actors that I love most have challenged themselves throughout their entire career. That's my goal.” ActorsGoalCareers Author:Taylor Lautner
“It's been great. I've been very lucky to work with more experienced actors early on in my career because I get a chance to learn from them. There is so much you can learn from them. You can just follow them and you'll be pretty safe.” ActorsChanceCareersLuckySafe Author:Katrina Kaif
“You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a profit, and no artist is less in charge of how their work is presented than an actor, the appeal of Vince was that within a great naturalism, he can convey fierce intelligence, complex emotion, and a real warmth married to a real edge, strength and vulnerability and danger and humor. There are essential contradictions at work that makes him fascinating to watch.” PeopleRealArtistTurnsActorsAbilityEmotionCareersWatchesStrengthDangerJudgingEssentialsMarriedComplexesEdgesProfitAppealsVulnerabilityContradictionFascinatingWarmthFierceNaturalism Author:Nic Pizzolatto
“The world has obviously changed in terms of the way filmmakers and actors and writers often look at their own careers. They all seem to want to include in their own process - along with some of their iconic and franchise-driven movies.” WorldWayWantLooksSeemsActorsProcessTermCareersChangedDrivenFilmmakerIconic Author:Mark Canton
“In my career as a double, a lot of my job is to not just do the fights to make them look cool, but also to appear as the same person as the actor I am playing.” LooksPersonsJobsFightingActorsCareers Author:Zoe Bell
“I sort of dreamed about directing before my career as an actor took off. I've directed stage before in so many capacities on tours. I put that together. You have to. Otherwise, it's your statement. It's your voice, and that has to come through.” TogetherActorsVoiceCareersStageCapacityStatements Author:Justin Timberlake
“I had parents who were working actors, who did really well in their careers, but it was a living. So it was a reality for me growing up; it wasn't a fantasy. It wasn't sitting there going, "I want to be adored." It wasn't that at all. Not to say that the screams of fans aren't a smile-raiser, but that was never the pull for me.” WantWellsRealityActorsParentCareersFantasyGrowing UpGrowingFansSittingScream Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“It [winning Oscar] is the most important event in the career of an actor, an extraordinary moment, beautiful. Some people live their whole life just to win an Oscar.” PeopleImportantWholeMomentsBeautifulActorsWinningCareersEventsExtraordinaryWhole LifeOscarsImportant EventsExtraordinary Moments Author:Sophia Loren
“A career like mine as an actor has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes you wonder if you're not wasting your time trying to carve out a space for yourself in this crazy entertainment industry.” IfsTryingSometimesActorsSpaceWonderCareersCrazyMinesIndustryEntertainmentUps & DownsEntertainment IndustryWasting Your Time Author:Chris Carmack
“It's never happened to me before, in my career, and never will again. It's a one-off experience. It's a rare treat to have a cast together for six years. Crews come and go, and a few of them have been there throughout, but not many. It's rare, in my experience, after 26 years, to have had a proper company in a show that enjoys each other's company, and who is such a fine bunch of people and actors. To have struck a chord with people, and to have had that combination, is extremely rare.” PeopleYearsHas BeensShowsTogetherActorsEnjoyCompanyCareersHappenedFineSixTreatsCastsBunchCombinationCrewChordsComes And Goes Author:Hugh Bonneville
“As an actor, you very rarely have the experience of picking up a script and getting a few pages into it and realizing that what you're holding in your hands is not just a role on a TV show, but it's one of those special parts that comes along, once or twice in a career. If you're lucky, you get an opportunity to do something really memorable and to be part of one of those rare shows that passes into that special category.” IfsShowsHandsActorsOpportunityRealizingCareersRolesSpecialTvsLuckyPagesScriptsMemorableCategoriesTv ShowsLucky You Author:Holt McCallany
“I love boxing. I really respect the guys and admire the guys who do it. But, I'm very, very happy with my career as an actor. I made the right choice.” MadeGuyChoicesActorsCareersAdmireBoxingVery HappyRight Choices Author:Holt McCallany
“I'd sort of acquired somewhat more mature perspective on what my career is and I don't...not anymore...consider fame and fortune my career. I'm not a star. I'm an actor. So in a way, what I want to do as an actor, I would consider good for my career. Does that make sense?” WayWantDoeActorsStarsCareersPerspectiveFameFortuneMake SenseMature Author:Christoph Waltz
“I play the sort of character who would sell his grandmother for career advancement, something I've come across a lot with actors.” PlayCharacterActorsCareersSellsGrandmotherAdvancement Author:Hugh Grant
“I'm definitely happy with the way my career has gone, the success; but I even feel glad that I've experienced some failure in my life. That gives you perspective and humility about this business; it's good to realize that you're always just one movie away from not being in Vogue anymore.” WayGivingFeelsActorsRealizingCareersGoneHumilityPerspectiveGladMovieJust OneVogue Author:Reese Witherspoon
“You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.” ActorsActingCareersSeeingMembersCrew Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman
“One of the greatest pleasures of working on shows is that I enjoy watching the actors - who are all younger than me now - and their careers. I love seeing how they're doing and seeing them getting good gigs and doing well.” WellsShowsActorsEnjoyPleasureCareersSeeingGigsGreatest Pleasures Author:Kelly Bishop
“After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.” YearsChildrenFilmActorsLeftCareersIndustryTalesFilm IndustryChild ActorsCautionary Tales Author:Lisa Jakub
“It's such a luxury as an actor to think of your career as something you're choosing for yourself, because so much of the time as an actor you're just hoping that exciting projects come your way.” ThinkingWayActorsCareersProjectsExcitingLuxuryThink Of You Author:Marin Ireland
“I'm living in a dream. I really consider myself really lucky. I was born and raised in Guatemala, in a village, where to go to the market you have to take two buses or drive about 20 minutes if you are lucky enough to have a car. I grew up very, very poor and I didn't even know that being an actor could be a career.” IfsKnowsTwoEnoughDreamActorsBornPoorCareersMinutesCarGrewLuckyGrew UpRaisedVillageBusBorn And RaisedGuatemala Author:Erick Chavarria
“I've been poked fun of throughout my career by fellow actors for my notes that I take. I have spiral notebooks that I carry with me on every project I do, and I take notes just so that if I have to relive a scene, if I have to go back, I know what I did.” IfsKnowsActorsFunCareersSceneProjectsFellowsNotesNotebookSpirals Author:Anna Chlumsky