I like Edward G. Robinson - he started as a character actor and became a lead, which is probably why I like him.
You don't write for actors. Actors come for characters you've made up.
I have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one. So statistics are on my side when I say I'm clinically sane.
It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.
Very obsessed fans do ask actors to attend their weddings.
I've always seen myself for who I am, which is a lot of things. So, I guess that when I walk into a room, I bring all those things to a role, and I've always just simply seen myself as an actor.
Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.
My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
When I was a child actor, I had the fear that I was going to be cast as the tree.
Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining.
I'm not just an actor born in L.A. I was born in the Griffith Park Hospital. You can't get any more clichéd than that.
As an actor - like an artist - you have to ask, "Why do I choose a certain moment to play something a certain way?" It's organic to who we are.
Seriously, I would go in a second. I'd be the first actor in space and I'd love to do it.
It's nice to have people interested about a show that you're involved in. It's what actors want.
We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.
Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking in Swahili and you wouldn't know.
They're a handful, but Emily deals with that all the time and, as an actor, I deal with that all the time, so you just ignore it. When Julia [Jones] first came on set, she was like, "How do you deal with it?," and I told her, "You just tune it out after awhile." They were competing with each other, doing push-ups and just being ridiculous, so you just have to zone out.
When you feel betrayed by someone that you trust the most... As an actor, you look for something that's going to let you express some of your inner emotions and anger.
Don't just view me as an actor.
About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.
For me as an actor, I use a lot of music. Music is a huge part of developing and getting into a certain mindset.
I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.
There are some actors who can only play themselves, but good actors must really be separated from the people they play.
