Actor Quote by Jack Nicholson

My career has mostly been jobs I love or cases where I needed money.

— Robert Sean Leonard

I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I…

— Robert De Niro

I realized early on that if I became an actor, I could play a writer and a sculptor and a painter and be all…

— Harry Dean Stanton

You learn early as an actor that creating your own material is the only way to have any control.

— Amy Poehler

I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career, except for when I've worked with the Coen brothers.

— Billy Bob Thornton

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…

— Clint Eastwood

I'm really lucky. I never really felt like LA was the Mecca, that you "made it" if you made it somewhere else. I've been…

— Kristin Lehman

Public perception is obviously important to an actor's career.

— David Walton

An actor's career doesn't feel like just one career to me. It feels like about five or six. Because every six or seven years,…

— Ron Livingston

There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus.…

— Juliet Stevenson

I have a problem with the term 'leading man.' It's so limiting; it involves not upsetting anyone. Obviously, we have anti-heroes now, but if…

— Jimmi Simpson

An actor's career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.

— Parker Posey

I have to say from an actor's perspective, to work with a director who has been an actor through most of their career is…

— Karen Allen

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…

— Erick Chavarria

No actor has made a career of exerting determination to the extent that Matt Damon has. In the 'Bourne' movies, he burned himself down…

— Elvis Mitchell