As an actor and as a performer, I've felt that the education system has really helped me in a lot of ways... there was always a teacher or a professor along the way that kept pushing me to the next stage.

— Jimmy Smits

As an actor, I trust my ear.

— Christopher Guest

As an actor, whether I'm playing Othello on stage or David Estes on 'Homeland,' that ability to give into your imagination is something that I enjoy.

— David Harewood

Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I'd done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.

— Jeff Bridges

Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

— Viggo Mortensen

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

— Laura Linney

Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya RAI Bachchan because she's a versatile actor.

— Brad Pitt

I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form.

— Geoffrey Rush

I don't feel like a romantic lead I guess I feel more like a character actor.

— Matthew Macfadyen

If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.

— Werner Herzog