I'm not a comedian. I'm what you call a good, old-fashioned working actor who has had delusions of grandeur for my entire career and has known what I want to do.
I'm just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor.
The actor in me always wants to link himself to a leader who's inspired.
I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me is intuitive and instinctive.
I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.
An actor always goes to the safe side.
I think I enjoy working obviously as a lead, but also you know I feel I'm also a character actor as well, so I enjoy approaching various projects in all sort of capacities. Any film I have been able to do I feel very fortunate to have been a part of.
I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor.
I would love to be a fly on the wall watching other directors and actors to see what their process is like.
I think the crucial thing about being an actor is to be doing it.
I started off doing plays as a theater actor. But I never thought of it in terms of it leading anywhere. I was just trying to be the best actor that I could be in the context of what I was doing.
The more it happens, the easier it is for others, although I do understand why some actors choose not to come out. I have several famous friends who are still in the closet.
I just went into this business for laughs. I guess I don't mind being an actor so much now.
It's fashionable for modern actors to talk about getting 'inside' a character. But you can't get to the inside without getting the outside right first.
For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience.
We can never know... But maybe it's because no black actors merited being nominated.Why put people into categories?
I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves
I would love to be able to do a film. I would love to be able to focus on what excites me in watching actors.
It's so great as an actor to get the opportunity to do something that's incredibly truthful.
The human condition is all about us pretending to be something sometimes that we're not. When you get into the core of people kind of stripping all of that away, that's for me, as an actor, always the most fun stuff to do.
I like actors - I used to be one.
I can talk endlessly about characters, or why someone did this or that, and what that dynamic and interaction is. I really love it, and I think that actors really respond positively to the fact that I like to talk about that stuff, because I'm not sure that all directors do.
I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.
I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.
I think we're all guilty of mistaking the actors we've seen over and over again - we think we know them.
