Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn't have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab.
I hope to see more programming, more shows, more actors of mixed ethnicity, more young kids of mixed ethnicity choosing to be in the entertainment industry.
Being a working actor, you're going to do a Spelling show. It's hard not to.
That's the worst thing for an actor: when you say to someone, "Yeah, I was in that movie," and they say, "You were?"
I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.
The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.
I never had posters on my wall and when I meet actors that I really admire, it's exciting because I get to work with them.
Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.
It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.
The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life
The big reason why I became an actor in the first place was to communicate. I never acted in high school...I was desperate to communicate.
Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.
Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes.
I consider myself a character actor.
As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor.
Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think thats because we were trained - until now - in theatre.
I want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor.
That's where I live, a junkyard in a neighborhood of junkyards. We have three tractors from the 1940s and '50s, several old pickup trucks, and a pile of scrap metal.
You get to use everything you learned in movie business. You talk to actors, if you do it right - and I haven't always done it right - you should be shaping the material all the time. And the other thing is, you get all the blame when you direct and it doesn't work. You get slammed. So that's another reason to know what you're making, why you're making it, and make it the way you want.
When I was coming up in the '80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor just coming up like I was, or you were an older actor whose career was over and you had to go on television.
I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I wanted to be an actor.
Eventually, if something pops up, that's cool, but I still wanna continue the process of learning how to be a good actor.
It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.
Don Knotts won five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor or Actress in a Series [in Andy Griffith Show] in 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966 and 1967.
The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
