We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.
I'm a method actor as well as a method singer.
When you're an actor working in the theater, you would never say anything to the writer, never alter the dialogue, never dream to ask for changes.
It's not that difficult to find the rage or the anger. We all have that in us, and luckily, actors and actresses get to portray it, and it's not frowned upon. Everybody has that in them. Everybody has wanted to kill somebody at one time or another. Everybody has been really, really angry about something, so if you just call on that in yourself, you find it's not that difficult.
For me as an actor, it's absolutely so thrilling to hear anybody talk about the character that I play.
I know that I'm a decent actor, but it's another thing to be in a scene with Jon Hamm and hold your own.
An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.
I'm going to ask what is correct, what I deserve, especially in relation to male actors.
As an actor, you wouldn't be able to play a character if you were worried about the reaction to what you're doing.
It's really, really, really difficult to have the same occupation as the person you're with - especially when you're both actors.
I'm hardly the most notable person in 'Zombieland.' The other actors in it are way more famous than I am.
As an actor, if I show up late somewhere or I say something that's eccentric, it's totally acceptable - not only that, it's lauded in some perverse way.
Nothing is harder than working with an actor who doesn't take it seriously or show up in the same way that you are.
The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.
[As an actor] you're looking to crawl into an anonymous fictional person's skin, but then you have the ironic obligation to promoting the movie in such a public way that it almost undermines the initial intention of going under the radar.
Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't.
As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.
As an actor, you are in a unique position because you’re not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.
I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good.
You can feel yourself trying too hard, doing too much. Nobody wants to watch somebody when they're needy, and actors are in the unfortunate position of needing to be cast and needing to be liked.
Eventually, I'd love to be known as a character actor.
Fear is an effective factor in altering behavior.
As an actor, you get to live out many professions. I just want to continue to evolve. My one goal in this business is just longevity and respect, and that's something I'll always have to work toward.
Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that.
I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.
