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Quotes about acting and actors
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Since the purpose of all actors is to entertain I appear frequently in the films that do just that - entertain. (Burke Chris)
He was an extraordinary actor. The neat part was acting with him. He said, I don't know why you give yourself that kind of trouble, son. But for me, there was no trouble. (Burke Chris)
I just want to continue finding actors' directors. (Burke Chris)
I know I'm responsible for not having got the kind of roles that I'd have liked to. ' (Burke Chris)
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I know what it's like to be a young actor. (Burke Chris)
It took us years to find out that he loved us very much, because it was so hard for him to express it. He was a good actor because he could take that repressed emotion onstage or in front of the camera and say how he felt. (Burke Chris)
Right now I feel I can carry on acting until I die. (Burke Chris)
Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion. (Burke Chris)
I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own. (Burke Chris)
Very seldom do actors get to do monologues. You just don't get that on film. I loved the script, loved the director, Peter Cohn, and he was able to gather interesting people. (Burke Chris)
I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford. (Burke Chris)
I like playing mothers. (Burke Chris)
I never turned down a mother role. (Burke Chris)
I'm not an actor. I never really studied that. (Burke Chris)
But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have a job - and you are working with heavyweights, working with the best guys in TV, it's pretty cool. Exhausting, but cool. (Burke Chris)
I didn't get into acting to be a public service announcer or an advocate and yet, by virtue of this show and how we handle the subject matter that we've been given, that's kind of how it's evolved in certain ways. (Burke Chris)
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. (Burke Chris)
It still took over a year after we met her, because we failed to conceive on a couple of attempts. She hung in there for us. I was in the hospital for the births and it was the most amazing experience. Having kids has shown me that there is something more important in life than acting. (Burke Chris)
I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond. (Burke Chris)
I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses. (Burke Chris)
I think it's incredible what it takes to be an artist of any importance, be it a writer, an actor, producer, whatever. (Burke Chris)
So I think it's fair to say it's even more of a challenge for some of these actors that are coming up, because there's such a pressure to look good, to be sexy and be palatable to people on whatever level. (Burke Chris)
I'm sometimes critical about other artists who come out with something different until maybe I hear the music. If the music is there, then they did their job, and I'll enjoy the CD. (Burke Chris)
I get great tickets to Knicks games and get to go to nice restaurants, but it's not like I'm Leonardo DiCaprio with paparazzi following me. (Burke Chris)
“[Did the two have any sense back then that they would be such massively successful and accomplished actors?] I would've been happy with an off, off Broadway job and that's what happened, ... We both started in something like that.” (Burke Chris)
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