I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone.
Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'
Kurt [Sutter] is one of the few showrunners that actually sits down and talks to the actor alone, and then with all of the other writers, and basically tells you what he has in mind and what's going to go down.
Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.
We all hope we have something else to do. We're going to be unemployed actors. It's a consistent state of being a professional actor, in my experience.
You have to let people find out who they are as actors and pull their strengths out based upon what they can actually do best.
You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!
Filmmaking can be a fine art.
I've had wonderful collaborators. They're very different, just as actors are. Working on a show with Nathan Lane is different from working on a show with Chita Rivera. It keeps you on your toes because it's different every time.
I plan on having the credibility and integrity of being a part of an entertainment news program like 'E!,' in addition to being on the actor side as well.
I remember the actor Dale Robertson said he quit acting when he got tired of having to hold his stomach in. I feel that way sometimes.
One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.
I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
I love actors and I understand what has to happen within a scene. Any scene is an acting scene and actors never act alone, so there has to be an interchange. If it's a dialog scene, if it's a love scene, it doesn't matter because you need to establish a situation.
An actor has to embody a role.
I'm an actor and I like having attention. There's a reason I like being on stage and in front of the camera, and it's that interaction.
You learn from the actors that you're working with. I've taken a lot from all of them.
Going to set, every day, and working with the incredible actors I get to work with is fulfilling. I've been doing this since I was nine years old, so it's always been something that I've been passionate about. It's always fed me.
As soon as you put an actor to a person who is real, that person comes to life through another person.
I've had ups and downs but always maintained I was a working actor, which is a beautiful thing.
If I am not right for something there are many talented actors out there that will get it.
When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled and you're treated with kid gloves.
One of the gifts of being an actor is that you get to learn new things see the world through different eyes.
I think actors should stay grounded and humble and open.
I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.
