I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director.
Paul and I were both struggling actors. One night he would serve me in a restaurant, and the next night I would serve him. It was what out of work actors did.
Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on.
Every time something bad happens, like we lose a day because of weather or an actor gets injured or anything else happens, the schedule has to change. It's the most challenging Tetris puzzle.
One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.
Directors don't get to see other directors at work - they're the only one on the set. I've met directors who've asked me what another filmmaker is like. So, there's probably nobody better placed to make all the comparisons and to pick up stuff than an actor.
You won't find a better young actor than Jaeden Lieberher. I ended up having one of the best times with him, really. Going to work with him every day was a treat.
An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.
As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call indicating, when you twirl your mustache.
Actors tend to be quite good at getting on with people. If you’re an arsehole, people don’t want to work with you. You won’t get hired Well, there are a few arseholes.
I told myself that I would not go back to the camps as an actor ever again, that I was very frightened of wearing a yellow star. It was fear, it was cowardice, I was.
I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
I don't want to just be an actor my whole life. I mean I do want to be an actor my whole life but not only an actor, I want to be an artist.
I have worked without thinking of myself. This is the largest factor in whatever success I have attained.
Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
I really like being thrown into the works. Many actors, I have found, have this as a common trait. We had to, as children, adapt to various situations with either a military family or things like that.
I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.
Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators.
I know a lot of actors who've just gotten bitter because they did something and then nobody ever saw it or whatever.
As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.
For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.
I always feel that I'm sort of co-directing with my fellow actors. And you can tell when something's going on that really interests them and they approve of. And then you can sort of tell when there's not.
