The beauty of being an actor in a horror film is that you know what to expect and what's coming.
I just want to be remembered as a great actor.
I know, as an actor, I don't like sharing everything with the director. And it's fine if they don't with me.
What's a celebrity anyway? Paris Hilton's a celebrity. I'm just a working actor.
It's tricky with monologues, and I never like to use that word. Like I told the actors, you are talking to somebody; there is no such thing as a monologue.
I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.
I like the show [Factor] because it's horny, but it's not skeevy. Where else are you going to get that nowadays?
I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.
Europeans have a different take [on nudity] than American actors do. They're not quite as hung up.
I took to it very quickly. I'm very imaginative anyway, and it just set off that part of my brain. It made me focus in on the actors a lot more. I didn't have the distraction of looking at my surroundings.
I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it.
I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.
[Shaquille O'Neal ] walked in and said we were hiring him, so we said, "Yes sir!" Shaq is a genuinely funny guy. He's really funny in the movie. He's not just a stunt cast- he's a genuinely funny actor.
Drugs have played no significant factor in my life.
Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience can't possibly go in.
With a screenwriter and with the actors there is always an environment of trust. You can say anything, all your secrets, and you know that it won't get out of that room.
Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush.
With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head.
Good actors, especially when they know their character, will come in and either tell you in advance that they have an idea, or in the middle of the rehearsal or the scene they'll let it loose and you go, "Ah that's great."
Every actor thinks he can do comedy, and it's not true.
The second season is generally easier do because you know the actors better and they know the characters better and if everybody likes each other you can really go all types of places.
I like to give the actors freedom to take what we have on the page and improve on it. And they do that quite a bit.
The first movie I saw where it convinced me I could be an actor was 'Mean Streets,' so whenever I see Robert De Niro and he says, 'Hi, Denis,' it's still a really big deal.
Dustin Hoffman said this one time, that if he hadn't made it as a film star, he would still be happy as a character actor because he was a character actor because of his face from day one, so he would always work in the theater.
You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing.
