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I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor! -- Lyle Lovett
What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor. -- Conrad Veidt
The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk. -- Graydon Carter
I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him. -- Clint Eastwood
If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it. -- Michael Caine
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 frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months. -- Jesse Eisenberg
I'm basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies - unless I'm doing a guest star or something - and occasionally I try to get back into television. -- Robert Englund
I work primarily for the camera-it's not something I really talk about a lot, but it's part of the way I am as a movie actor. The camera is my girl, as it were. -- Terence Stamp
The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?' -- Michael Caine
Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy. -- Russell Baker
All my life, I have taken inventory at intervals. For example, when I became a movie actor and suddenly I had to deal with fame, money and playing so many roles, I lost myself. I said, 'Who am I?' And I wrote my first book to deal with that, 'The Ragman's Son.' -- Kirk Douglas
It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be. -- Aaron Tveit
I want to be an example of a guy who made something of himself out of nothing. A guy who overcame the odds of a tough childhood, who worked hard, who didn't let his surroundings get the best of him and lead him to jail or the graveyard. Where I ended up - being a comedian, a TV star, and a movie actor - might be unique, but my story is not. -- Tracy Morgan
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Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century. -- Roger Ebert
I may be a B-movie star, but I work. I'm an actor. -- Robert Englund
My chosen occupation isn't necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor. -- Sarah Gadon
Any actor should be grateful if he's remembered for one movie in their lifetime. -- Cary Elwes
Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess. -- Melissa Leo
A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits. -- Mary Astor
An actor is just a part of a movie, but director - he is the movie. -- Amit Kalantri
Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium. -- Rebecca Romijn
I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do. -- Juliette Binoche
Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor. -- Montgomery Clift
I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star. -- Al Pacino
Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie. -- Harold Ramis
Keanu Reeves is, like, the worst actor I've ever seen. I can't believe he's a movie star. -- Juliana Hatfield
I'll watch a Keanu Reeves movie and I'll go, 'Wow, he's really not a very good actor!' -- Ashton Kutcher
Everyone wants to label me, but I don't want to be labeled as a rapper or a movie actor. -- Riff Raff
Instead of being a theater actor who sometimes does movies I became a movie actor who sometimes does theater. -- John Lithgow
As an actor, your motives and your own crazy psyche is really all you're responsible for in the movie. -- Kate Beckinsale
I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie. -- Jesse Eisenberg
An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie. -- Christopher Walken
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God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around. -- Michael Horton
Denzel Washington is a big Hollywood movie star now. But he started out as an actor in the Negro Ensemble company. -- Pearl Cleage
Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him. -- Kevin Bacon
I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was....I always wanted to be a movie actor. -- Morgan Freeman
It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom. -- Nicole Sullivan
Every end of the day is a great movie and the Sun above is surely the leading actor in this film! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
When you're an actor and you walk into a theatre where your movie is playing, you're kinda proud. "Look at my skill!" -- James Hetfield
People keep trying to make me a movie star but they just don't understand. I'm not a movie star, I'm an actor. -- Ryan Phillippe
I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment. -- Felicity Jones
An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them. -- Nicholas Meyer
That's the worst thing for an actor: when you say to someone, "Yeah, I was in that movie," and they say, "You were?" -- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
As an Asian actor, I would like once in my life to do just one Hollywood movie. It would be a memorable experience. -- Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
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I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. -- Kevin Kline
Every actor you learn from, take something from everyone - big actor or not. Whether they're big movie stars or not doesn't really matter. -- Diane Kruger
I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted. -- Kirk Douglas
Each movie was a challenge for me, as a man, as an actor. After each movie, something changed in my life, in my character... -- Omar Sy
The truth is, ever since I was little, I've wanted to be an actor more than I ever wanted to be a movie star. -- Cathy Moriarty
I'm not an American actor. I'm a French actor. I'll continue in France. If I could make another silent movie in America, I'd like to! -- Jean Dujardin
It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie. -- Ioan Gruffudd
I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actors always an actor until he does a movie-star part. -- Lynda Obst
If you know the filmmaker is good and the leading actor is a movie star like Diane Lane, you know you're part of something great. -- Kevin Connolly
Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has." -- Norman Jewison
Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has. -- Norman Jewison
Ryan Gosling. He was a good kid, good actor. I like him very much. What was the name of the movie? I've forgotten it. Fracture. -- Anthony Hopkins
I feel like I've finally made it as an actor. I've been doing this for years and you don't always make a movie that everybody likes. -- Michael Ealy
One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won't hurt my career. -- Joe Pantoliano
I would like Albert Brooks to have received the Oscars for best actor, best director and best screenplay for 'Modern Romance.' I love that movie. -- Andy Kindler
I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I wanted to be an actor. -- Billy Bob Thornton
You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by you as an actor. -- Harold Perrineau
Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that, not just musicians who act. -- Lance Bass
My dad and me were incredibly close. He was an actor, and so him and I shared this whole movie-world thing closer than anyone else in the family. -- Jackie Earle Haley
I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie. -- Matt Damon
Angelina wanted to make sure that any fighting in the movie would be comparable to any male actor. Everything from stick fighting to horse riding was real to her. -- Jan de Bont
I don't want to be a movie star like Angelina Jolie. Nothing about being a celebrity is desirable. I'm an actor. It's bizarre to me that everybody's so obsessive. -- Kristen Stewart
I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I've always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself. -- Dwayne Johnson
Let me put it this way: If you're sitting in a movie and you're watching me, and you say, 'Isn't that Michael Caine a wonderful actor?' then I've failed. -- Michael Caine
For a long time I was embarrassed to say I was a 'B' movie actor, ... But now that I see what Hollywood's putting out, I realized 'B' actually means 'better.' -- Bruce Campbell

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