You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star.
I don't intend to be insensitive to the victims and their families but, at the same time, as an actor, it's our job, and we are obligated to portray the characters in the most realistic way possible.
Artists have always been the front line; that's part of our responsibility. But a lot of the big actors come out, they get slammed, and then they retreat.
Actors, you kind of have these ebbs and flows. These moments where you're in your glory - where you're really cracking - and moments where you're not.
Most great parts for guys in wheelchairs tend to go to actors who walk.
I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.
There's a misperception about actors that we actually choose the roles we end up doing - it's more that we're chosen for them.
It's a point of pride that no one would treat me any differently because I'm an actor than if I was a gardener.
George [Lucas] wanted to know whether we'd be interested. He did say that if we didn't want to do it, they wouldn't cast another actor in our parts - they would write us out.
As an actor, when you walk into a room to audition, you get five minutes with a casting director, who doesn't even look at you, most of the time.
People are kinda still a bit puritanical, perhaps. People don't expect a woman to feel so open, in a way, about her sexuality onscreen, and they probably find it fascinating. I think more actors are doing it and being open to that and not being afraid of it, so it's becoming less of a thing.
I don't really have a method or a technical process. I studied [Sanford] Meisner, and that's the thing that really works for me. That sort of instinctual, in the moment, what the other actors do, working off them and letting the story unfold, as opposed to having an idea of what the story should be.
Most of the time, actors respond to the thing thats so far from who they are. We all want to play the serial killer and the ex-con.
I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I am. I am going to be that.
I'm just an actor. I am nothing special.
I wanted to be an actor and I wanted to be a performer. Like Hugh [Grant] said earlier, we might all have this weird gene. Hopefully I will continue to have the talent to allow that gene to play itself out for as long as it can.
For me as an actor, it's really fun to play someone who's not human.
Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
Even in my dreams of being an actor, my dream was not in the celebrity. My dream was in the work that I wanted to do.
If you're doing things that you don't want to be doing or you're working with people who aren't making you better and you're not learning, if things aren't challenging you, you could be wasting your time. You might be making some money, but you might not be improving as an actor.
I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.
The truth in acting is that we are all hired help. We are a commodity. There is no difference between being an actor and pork bellies.
I'm still waiting to hit it big. But there was the moment when I didn't have to work at the restaurant anymore, which is the milestone for every actor. When your job is just to be an actor and not to have to do anything else.
For me to want to be an actor was an improbable idea. I wasn't beautiful or pretty in any conventional way. I wasn't an ingenue at 22. But I was always certain of it and certain of its power. I felt the power when I went to the theater at 9, 10, 12 and 14.
I would love to do some straight drama. A lot of times it's not up to the actor, it's up to the producer. It's up to the powers that be.
