“I feel that the work I do is not personal. I have to create a fiction. I'm not a politician. I'm an actor.”— Benicio Del Toro
“When you're a character actor, you're always looking for a difference. It's the difference that makes you.”— Ray Walston
“The only thing I can say is that I'm a disciplined actor who works hard in the workshop, and when I'm on the set, I can detach myself and watch.”— Ray Walston
“When I got the part, I was a very serious actor. I was at the American Conservatory Theater. I did Shakespeare. I did Chekhov... I wasn't an actor who was just looking for a laugh.”— Gedde Watanabe
“The first duty of an actor is to be a servant to the author. He must not use the author's play as a vehicle for his own personality.”— Oskar Werner
“Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being – his physical, mental and emotional habits – are the tools of his trade.”— Oskar Werner
“When you get a great script, it's not so much putting your own spin on it as just doing what the script says.”— Adam West
“My acting is a bit like a sponge. I soak up everything, from men on the bus to watching TV.”— Forest Whitaker
“Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - are the tools of his trade.”— Donald Wolfit