Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.
There's nothing more terrifying than an actor who comes with an idea.
We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.
Part of what's cool about being an actor or being in this industry, frankly, is to be able to travel to distant lands. That's part of the deal. I always thought when I was growing up, "I wanna be an actor and go see the world.'
As an actor, you're always in situations that can be compromising. But you can wipe away that gray area by making a choice.
Every actor wants to be everybody - play all the roles.
As an actor, I've been drawn to those characters that are further away from who I may be.
It's not easy making money as an actor. It's just not an easy thing to do. There's so many that want to do it and so few opportunities to do it that it's not as easy as it would seem.
If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do.
I usually hang out on the set. I get to know everybody. I have a nice time with the other actors.
I had no idea that, when you audition for television or movies, you go to a big building - like, an office building - and you walk in the room, and everybody, I assumed, was smarter than me and better than me, and there's actors you recognize. I once fainted at an audition.
In general, I did what a lot of character actors do: I did it to get girls.
You don't go to Berkeley to become an actor. In fact, I don't think you go to any school to become an actor. You've just sort of got to go out there and act.
To be an actor, a lot of times it's a strange combination of high confidence and low self-esteem. Which is a weird combination to have, but I think it's sort of very common among actors.
I just don't feel like part of the fraternity of actors. I do geek out. All the time.
I was selling real estate at the time, in Pacific Palisades, California, so imagine that: getting a note and a bottle of champagne from Jack Nicholson when I'd barely made a dime as an actor. It really kept me going.
When you're working, nobody's a star. We're all just actors trying to figure it out.
Each of us has our own destiny. Mine is to be an actor.
If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.
As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.
As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.
I'm a journeyman actor. My experience as a journeyman actor is that you have to go where the work is. I've never been the lead; I've never been in that position.
I'm a character actor; that's my skill set.
You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.
I think the education I've had as an actor I would never have had at university.
