Most people don't like challenges at work. Actors love challenges at work.
Actors work for many reasons. Sometimes you do it because the material is good. Sometimes you do it because the paycheck is good. We would love to only do things that are art, that are artistic and that satisfy us, but this is our job, as well.
I much prefer the company of the crew, the sort of 'blue-collar working person.' I much more have that sensibility than what the public perceives as what a typical actor would have.
Everybody works in a different way, and I've worked with actors that have no training whatsoever who are phenomenal.
As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do.
I enjoy being an actor largely; in part at least, because you get to walk a mile in another person's shoes, you get to see what their skin is like. The other good thing is you get to leave it.
If you're working with a director you trust, you can turn that part of you off that wants to direct other actors in a certain way.
I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell.
If you're a leading actor you don't work with another actor. You work with a lady.
When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.
My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O'Neill, who is a photographer, Johnny Gold, who was the boss of Tramp, and Leslie Bricusse, who is a composer.
In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.
We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.
I'm not a betting man, and even if I was, I certainly wouldn't bet on this! I would not bet on the Best Actor.
There are loads of black actors.You can't say: I'm going to vote for him, he's not very good but he's black, [so] I'll vote for him. You've got to give a good performance.
As an actor, I'll play anything.
If you held a pistol at my head, I couldn't tell you who they're going to vote for Best Actor.
I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.
I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.
My circle of friends are not actors at all. None of them are actors, really, because they're are not available. They're always off somewhere.
I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.
If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.
I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.
As an actor I'm always interested in dialogue, the way the characters speak to each other. I also enjoy a bit of humor, especially when it's unexpected.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is a movie that I just find flawless. Jack Nicholson... I just saw 'The Shining' again the other day; he's so brilliant. He's such a brilliant actor, just unbelievable.
