In this business actors who have Botox or surgery make you very aware of age. It's awful.
If an actor is bored, then they are boring to an audience. I definitely don't want to ever be that.
I'm not a comedian. I don't do stand-up. I don't tell jokes. I'm a comedic actor, and approach my work that way. The comedy comes through the character.
Right now, if you're interested in being a dramatic actor, they're not making that many just regular dramas. Movies have to have some other thing going on.
I've always watched actors on the red carpet getting drunk and making idiots of themselves and now I'm happy to join their ranks
People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.
Every actor has their stalker.
My goal was never to be famous, but to be a consistently working actor.
Being an actor is definitely not about sitting around on set and having a cigarette or something. It's about acting. The more you can audition, then that's the best thing ever because you learn so much and you get your face out there and you grow your confidence.
I love performing in a good straight play as well and I'm a crossover actor, I crossover from plays to musicals, musicals to plays. This is very difficult for performers.
Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
As actors, we want to challenges ourselves and put ourselves in different situations to see how we react and deliver a performance.
I'm very grateful and appreciative, and I remind myself every day that there are thousands and thousands of actors that have the same dreams and aspirations that I have.
Look, I'm an actor, I don't profess to understand much of anything
My first film as an actor was 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' a glorious experience that spoiled me for future films.
The '80s were a time of technical wonder in filmmaking; unfortunately, some colleges didn't integrate their film and theater departments - so you had actors who were afraid of the camera, and directors who couldn't talk to the actors.
But I've always felt that the less you know about an actor's personal life, the more you can get involved in the story in which he's playing a character. And I don't like to see movies where you know about everything that happens behind the scenes. I can't engage in the story if I know what's going on in the actor's head.
Every actor has periods of their life that are a little less busy than others, and that was just a time when I needed that. And to be back on a sitcom stage, with Julia [ Louis-Dreyfus], was really, really fun.
As much as I loved [Al] Pacino and [Robert] De Niro and wanted to be a dramatic actor, I also grew up on sitcoms.
I always get a little uppity when I hear the phrase 'TV actor.' It's like saying you're a magazine reporter. I was in the theater for ten years before I ever had a TV audition.
A lot of actors are perfectionists, besides merely being egotists.
To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.
Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.
A lot of factors go into the longevity of a show.
Having seen Justin's work on Bleak House, I knew that he'd be incredibly well prepared and interesting stylistically for this and that was definitely the case. It's very liberating for actors - and I can only speak for myself here - but he creates a very loose environment and he's a great collaborator.
