I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.
As a young actor, I booked a movie in the U.S. I didn't speak any English at the time, so I learned my lines phonetically when I auditioned for it.
I have considered myself a mature actor.
As an actor, I tend to enjoy going to the dark side.
What great comedians, great comic writers, great comic actors do is that they just read the headlines with the right eyebrow position and it's funny.
There's a nimble quality to the way a television actor can work. When that muscle gets strong it's a very valuable thing.
A vampire is very easy; you just take a very good-looking actor, put some teeth on them, make them pale, and you're there.
Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. I just started doin' it in front of an audience and had to deliver.
I spent about a year and a half doing technical post work on 'The Fountain'. Although I do like the process, I think my favorite part of filmmaking is the actors.
I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore.
Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.
I never thought about being an actor. I was just going to play music and baseball. That’s all I was going to do. To this day, that’s what I do. I just added movies to it.
No actor in the world started off at the top.
I'm always amazed at the way some actors' behaviour is truly disgusting. That's one thing that will never happen on one of my sets if I ever direct.
I want to prove to people that I'm an actor and not just a character.
To be honest, I would like to have worked with Peter Sellers, because when people talk about classic British actors, you talk about Lawrence Olivier, and Peter Sellers was just in the most amazing films.
I certainly want to establish myself as an actor in my own right, rather than being just the actor who plays Harry Potter.
There's no blueprint for where I should be. I see myself as a young, good actor who still has a lot to learn. There's nobody at any point in their career who is the finished article.
I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.
But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.
You never know when you're taking a job, ever... but you try to take good scripts. That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available. Even then, it's not [really] in your control. Certainly not in film and TV, because there are so many other elements. You just have to take control of your own performance.
Insiders say Obama's pretty comfortable around actors. He should be. He has been 'acting' like he was born in Hawaii for a long time.
I'm more than an actor. I'm an icon, an industry.
Well, Ive always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.
However good a communicator a director is, unless they've been actors, it's just not the same as the shorthand you get with someone who's been an actor.
