There are some actors who are my contemporaries who I think of as purebreds and I'm not.
I always wanted to be a great actor.
I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
You know, people really don't understand what actors do.
But actors should act. You should see them most often rather than just not.
It's easier to be more vulnerable in a smaller environment. It's hard to expect your actors to be able to open up in that way and stay with the level of focus needed when there's so many people on stage.
I'm not one to mythologize other actors too much, but obviously Sandy Bullock is a gorgeous woman.
I will no longer be an actor to hire, I have a passion for producing and making films.
At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore.
Thankfully I'm a better actor than football player, or at least I hope so.
I'm not one of those actors who gets physically fit for a role and then loses it all again.
I'm not one of those actors who asks for too many favours. So when I do, people tend to listen.
I think we just knew that we had a movie when Rachel walked in the room.
In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.
Every actor turns everything round to their character.
Old actors never die, they don't even fade away. They're always available.
As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.
I can rely on me [being a director], unlike some actors. I never got anything less than what I needed from the lead actor.
I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor.
Being a conservative union member is almost like being an actor in Hollywood: You don't dare say it, or you might be injured on the job, or you might be laid off, or your family might have something happen to them.
To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.
One of the beauties about being an actor is that nothing really has to make sense. You just do it and live it and hope it comes out and try to find the truth in what's in the text in your own way and hopefully you can find truth in the text and everything else just comes.
I find there aren't that many options as an actor.
Honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out.
I don't think many actors are that good, to be honest. I certainly don't think I am.
