It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

— Sam Shepard

It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything.

— Shari Sebbens

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realized I'd become an actor.

— James D'arcy

I was 3 when I told my mom that I knew what my dharma was and that I wanted to be an actor.

— Brie Larson

My becoming an actor wasn't planned. My interest always lied in sports such as football, martial arts, gymnastics and dance.

— Tiger Shroff

My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.

— Jennifer Aniston

My dad was very much a struggling actor and spent more of his life as a postman, as a member of a tarmac firm, as a van driver.

— Kate Winslet

My father has been an actor since 1964. Things were tight a lot of the times, financially. It wasn't like a big romantic adventure.

— Chris Pine

My goal was never to be famous, but to be a consistently working actor.

— Erin Cummings

My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby.

— John Abraham