I don't have a yen to be just a movie actor.

What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.

— Conrad Veidt

Of course I think it's a movie for everybody [Insane Farting Corpse], but that's probably just because it's a movie for me.

— Paul Dano

All my life, I have taken inventory at intervals. For example, when I became a movie actor and suddenly I had to deal with…

— Kirk Douglas

Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.

— Roger Ebert

To this day my father cringes when he has to tell friends, 'My son's a movie actor.'

— Victor Banerjee

Instead of being a theater actor who sometimes does movies I became a movie actor who sometimes does theater.

— John Lithgow

I'm basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies - unless I'm doing a guest star or something -…

— Robert Englund

It feels as though a very disproportionate number of main characters are writers, because that's what the writer knows. Fair enough. But nothing bothers…

— B. J. Novak

For a movie actor, the biggest challenge on TV is the number of close-up shots.

— Sonali Bendre

To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script…

— Michael Caine

I want to be an example of a guy who made something of himself out of nothing. A guy who overcame the odds of…

— Tracy Morgan

I understand the opposite side of the camera. I have a profound respect for that. I have worked with people who, when you hit…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

As a movie actor, once you've become known, you're observed all the time so you don't get the chance to observe anymore. You still…

— Clint Eastwood

I love the process of making a movie so much as an actor that I can only imagine I would love the process of…

— Tom Holland