Actor Quote by James Earl Jones Download Open image “No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.” — James Earl Jones ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Actor Actor Owed Asked Actor Entitlement Owed Owed Entitlement Theatre
You're not simply entitled to be an actor - you're not an actor just because you call yourself one - you earn it. You… — Larry Moss Copy Share Image
My whole career has been a struggle for dignity and justification, to prove that I'd made the right decision to be an actor in… — Nigel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me. — Kathleen Quinlan Copy Share Image
There are certain sacrifices that you make, and you feel like the only compensation you have as an actor is financial. — David Schwimmer Copy Share Image
The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make… — James D'arcy Copy Share Image
I've done stuff to pay my dues and that's what actors are supposed to do, because I was a really bad actor when I… — Rachael Taylor Copy Share Image
I didn't ever intend to or want to be an actor. I'm not one of those people of whom they say, 'If you can't… — Dakin Matthews Copy Share Image
I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits. — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
For me, I just feel as actors, you're never entitled to anything. It's tough out there. You have to really want it. And that's… — Greta Lee Copy Share Image
I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
I didn't become an actor because I thought I'd make lots of money. — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other. — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
You weren't going to the theatre to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually. — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine. — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
I love doing commercials! Usually, they have enough money that they can take time and photograph it well. — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter. — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since. — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
There has got to be a way for me to have a role on TV or in film that is just as normal as… — Adeel Akhtar Copy Share Image
I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I auditioned for the theater school, and I was there for four years. In the meantime, I did my first… — Ana de Armas Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in… — Annie Potts Copy Share Image
Actors don't hate acting. Most people don't hate acting! Whether you're a child mucking around with your friends or a grown up being paid… — Liv Hewson Copy Share Image
