Now when I get auditions, I choose to believe that I am an amazing actor.
I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.
New York is so full of the best unemployed actors on the planet.
I guess I'm an actor - just human behaviour's just fascinating to me. I mean, I'd like to be.
It was never my goal to be an actor.
I'm an actor that likes to go to work. I like going to work every day. I'm a worker by nature. I'm not someone who does one film a year and feels satisfied by that.
'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.
I've done stuff to pay my dues and that's what actors are supposed to do, because I was a really bad actor when I was 18 or 20.
Deepika is one of my absolute favourite Bollywood actors. It is wonderful to have someone of her stature wearing my brand
Maybe I'm secretly in my soul a method actor.
Everything makes me vulnerable, you just have to use it as an actor. It's a constant balance.
In all my documentaries I did all the camera work, but in fiction I didn't want to do it myself. I think the machinery is so heavy and demanding that you would leave the actors alone for a long time.
There are a lot of actors out there who've made one or two films and who never work again.
If I'm directing actors, I learn about acting that way. If I'm acting, I learn about directing that way. Producing is just something that's come about because there's projects I find interesting that I would like to help get done.
I would never not work on the part without it playing. That's what being an actor is. You use everything that's influenced you to help you get out of yourself or be more creative.
I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'
You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.
I started as a director, but I was too bored with actors. I preferred to act.
There are two kinds of actors: those with one job too few, who have to take every one that comes along, and those with one job too many, who can always turn down the one they don't want.
It seems to me that everybody who's a success has made a decision to put themselves in a situation that eats away at their privacy. Their hours just don't end. Now, with actors it's extreme, because their privacy is almost nonexistent.
I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.
Words are words, but the way an actor says them, the way it's framed, puts you either in the world that looks a lot like ours or one that doesn't seem a lot like ours, one that can be farcical or one that can't.
If I want to keep working as an actor, I'm going to become a comedian who does fart jokes.
If no one on the movie has met me before or knows me, that's the easiest. I don't do a lot of things that don't relate to being the person. I will try to keep it going for my other actors. I want them to do the least amount of pretending as possible.
I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.
