I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will.
Actors are such an insecure breed.
I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.
It's all about whatever enriches you. If you decide to go the domestic route and get married and all those things, it makes you a better actor.
Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.
The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role -- unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.
If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare
I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.
Directors, like actors, get typecast.
I've been called a funny person, for a long time. I don't know that I know anything about comedic acting. I'm not a good improver, which is what a lot of comedic actors are really good at. I have failed miserably when I've been asked to improvise.
Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
People say I'm a one-note actor, but the way I figure it, those other guys are just looking for that one right note.
Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.
I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.
Acting is like sex. You should just do it and not talk about it.
I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.
This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.
I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.
I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.
Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.
I'd say that the No. 1 attribute you need as an actor is to be malleable. You need to be able to change and tailor what you're doing to what the situation dictates.
When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way.
When I do scenes with Alec Baldwin, he just stares at my boobs. That's how good of an actor he is, he finds a way.
One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.
When I was a young actor, I just didn’t understand how to function in this business as an artist. It is a business, it’s called the film business for a reason, there’s money involved ... But on the flip side, now I do not let the business side of it rule either. It’s a balance.
