#actor

The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.' ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#because #better #career #comes #control

I'm a dog person, I've had dogs all my life. But you see, it's not really a dog. It's more like a little robot. It's an actor. It displays no emotion whatsoever. I swear that dog doesn't know any of us even though we've done five seasons of Frasier. ↗

— John Mahoney

#any #displays #dog #dogs #done

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual. ↗

— Herbert Marcuse

#chosen #decisive #degree #determining #factor

The room is full of such talent. It's a beautiful thing about the SAG Awards. It's the most rewarding room to be in as an actor. ↗

— Julianna Margulies

#actor #awards #beautiful #beautiful thing #full

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready. ↗

— Steve Martin

#actor #because #constructing #else #first

I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work. ↗

— Kent McCord

#been #eight #i #lucky #never

As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me. ↗

— Eric McCormack

#given #image #important #me #messages

I'm just an actor, but if the extra part of it is that I'm helping people or people are being helped by the virtue of what we're doing, then that's just a really nice added extra. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#added #being #doing #extra #helped

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor? ↗

— David McCullough

#deciding #factor #history #how #human

Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique. ↗

— Hattie McDaniel

#actress #create #distinctive #every #passion