I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
Some actors learn the habit of promoting themselves as a brand - by dressing in a certain way, by going out with a certain person - it gives them what they obviously want, which is to keep a level of fame. I'm not putting it down.
In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'
I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.
I have no idea what 'method actor' means.
Sometimes you look at a movie and you can see that the actor or actress said, 'I'm taking this onboard because I'm making a ton of money, and not because it's going to be something special.'
The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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.
Most actors can't make any kind of living.
I hate hearing about actors who don't like the show. There are so many actors out there who'd give their right arm for what I'm getting to do.
The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explore and, in general, they get more complicated, so you get to bring all your crazy life experience to the table.
To do a portrait today, I decide how close I can get to my subject. First, of course, mentally or intellectually, then in the viewfinder. Music cues the subject and me when to shoot. The music played during a photography session is most important - stimulating to the subject and to me. As in a film, the music builds or becomes quiet, romantic; just one note sets the actor up to emote for his audience. I want a reciprocal portrait, not a bureaucratic one
I'm no actor. And I have sixty-four pictures to prove it.
The joy is when you work with great actors, it just comes to life in a way that you never even imagined.
Growing up I was involved in children's theater, so I was definitely on the path to be an actor and a singer.
Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.
Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.
[When you are an actor] it's not a burden to go to work whether it's hard work, whether it's super early work, whatever. So, I go there because I want to be there. I want to do this. That helps a lot.
There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.
Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.
Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
Actors don't have real value.
I'm easily starstruck. Seeing Buster Posey or any actor, anyone at a restaurant, for me I get really starstruck, so just trying to calm myself down and say, "This is where I belong. This is what I've prepared my whole life to be doing."
