I'm a dog person, I've had dogs all my life. But you see, it's not really a dog. It's more like a little robot. It's an actor. It displays no emotion whatsoever. I swear that dog doesn't know any of us even though we've done five seasons of Frasier.
I'm not intimidated by other actors at all - or directors. I don't care who they are. But I am intimidated by writers. I hold them in the highest esteem.
I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.
No, I'm at full height, I'm in the studio, I can actually catch actors by the eye, it's fantastic.
But here I am today recording this and I'm in the studio with all the others on a clean mic. It's extraordinary, the actor's found a way of doing it for himself.
I am very direct and I tend to treat everyone exactly the same, which sometimes gets me in trouble because some movie stars feel like they should be treated differently. But, when you're dealing with good actors, they really appreciate it.
I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.
It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good.
The camera is the slave to the actor.
I know every actor says this, but the people behind the camera are great. They always have answers.
Have you ever talked to someone, and you're not even really talking to them? Actors are the worst for that.
Actors always have opinions.
I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors.
In a weird way, that's the beauty of being an actor. You get to live out things that you're afraid of, and you get to say, 'Well, maybe I can get to the end of it and survive it intact and I can be the hero of my own story.' It's kind of a way of exorcising fear.
One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.
The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.
I have a theory. An audience doesn't need to get wrapped up in blackness every time they see a Negro actor. And a movie doesn't have to be about race just because there's a Negro in it.
I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.
As an actor, you’ve got to live and learn, and you gotta just kind of form a hard shell and be confident in yourself.
I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.
I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off.
I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.
Good actors never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they all say whatever they want to say.
Would you go to see a brilliant actor who's been framed for something that he didn't do, and put him on a stage and say he's going to do Hamlet for you, and why don't you enjoy it? That's a hell of an analogy, but it's about the same thing.
'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.
