There's a lot of egos with actors. We certainly don't like to be directed by other actors, or anything like that.
When you're an actor and you can set your arm on fire, you feel kind of magical.
Yeah, snakes. They're my fear factor.
I know actors that were on great television shows that got cancelled and they have never done anything that good since.
People forget that we are character actors and we can do other things.
I've watched people who were better actors than me disappear, and they're selling insurance now.
I'm an actor. Actors are supposed to act.
I may be a B-movie star, but I work. I'm an actor.
I was quite a snob when I was a theatre actor earlier in my career.
You obviously don't have to be a murderer to play a murderer or you don't have to be a dictator to play a dictator. So, you're an actor. You come up with whatever you come up with to play that part.
I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century.
Sometimes everything you need to know to be an actor in your mid-forties, you learn before you were 15 years old.
Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.
I don't want to be a luvvie actor. It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional actor, and that, actually, I make a living out of this.
The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing.
If there is a streak of ham anywhere in an actor, Shakespeare will bring it out.
Josh Brolin is an actor that I really, really like; he's fantastic. I worked with him once; he's a really great actor.
What was good was that I had friends who were actors and in theatre who were really good, because I think my strengths were visual, like pictorial.
I'm one of those fortunate actors who gets to work pretty much every day. I've had a run of good fortune and work with some terrific people who have hired me.
My great joy in working on anything is stepping out in front of the camera and working with the actors.
The press concentrates on a divorce an actor's going through and they ignore the good performances he gives, or the causes that he works for.
As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets.
[Ed Lauter] was an actor's actor. I love working with that class of actor. You know, they come in, they do it, no bullshit. There's no artifice, there's no fanciness, they're just honest and tough and direct.
In the business of acting, those are the actors that make the trains run on time, you know? There's nothing without them.
Allison Janney is the best actor on the series.Allison is one of the few actors I ever worked with who is incapable of hitting a false note.
