The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man.
Like an actor who transforms into the character that they're playing, you can transform into yourself.
An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
When I audition for something, I don't even want to think about who the other actors are in it, who's directing it.
When you work with an actor, it's cool because they know what it's like to be directed themselves. Jodie directed a scene with me and Taylor that was when she starts talking to me again in prison and it's our first actual confrontation that we have, where some stuff comes out.
I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
Any competent actor could have done what I did.
I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.
Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that, not just musicians who act.
I was a terrible actor, and that's why I got the job: I would allow myself to be so bad that I lowered and got down to WWF standards.
I don't think that there's much hiding that actors can do. If you're doing good work, you're showing a part of yourself to someone.
I remember that Jack Lemmon, who is one of my favorite actors of all time, says that the day he stops being nervous is the day he should leave the business.
I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.
There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.
With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is.
I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.
In terms of being Australian, I think a big part of it is the determination to prove yourself, just like Aussie actors.
Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.
Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.
The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.
Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor.
Actors are as anxious about the state of audiences as aviators are over weather conditions.
I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.
But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.
I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.
