It's rough to feel creatively satisfied, as an actor, for the most part, because you don't initiate your own work.
I remember seeing Aladdin when I was five or six and loving it. I looked at the big screen and said to my mum, Whatever this Genie guy does, I want to do. Mum said I couldnt be a genie, but that Robin Williams, who did the voice-over in the film, was an actor. So I said, OK, then, I want to be an actor.
As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before.
I'm a theater actress and I thrive on working with other actors, and you can't be even a smidge bad, when you're acting with Charlie [Sheen]. He's just so natural, so present and so good that you have to step up to his level, or else.
All people are half actors.
Jonathan Lynn is one of the last actors Orsen Welles used in a production. It was wonderful. He's very sharp, very sharp. It's funny I've been asked how weird it was to have a Brit do a church gospel movie
I'm a real people person and I'm very sensitive, and I've just noticed how other actors that I've worked with, as an actor, take direction from people.
I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.
When I'm in Los Angeles, sometimes I hesitate saying that I'm an actor because people are like, "Of course you are." And I'm like "No, not, 'Of course I am.'"
I grew up in the theater with my mom and that's how I knew I wanted to be an actor in the first place.
As an actor ... at some point you've got to forget that the crew's there in order to do your job.
If any child of mine becomes an actor I will turn in my grave.
I'm a people's actor, not a critics' actor, and I always have been.
In England, and all over Europe, and all over the world, actors act until they die. They get old, really old, and they're still working. They just keep doing it.
All actors do what they do differently, and it doesn't matter.
I have boxes full of stuff. Most actors do have a trunk full of stuff, paintings or scripts. It never comes to anything.
I come from a show-business family, so wanting to become an actor never crossed my mind. It was just a part of my life.
One of the difficult things about being an actor is to stick around.
It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody would know what I was doing.
I wasn't a trained actor, I was trained in musical comedy theater, and when you do that, the audience is completely part of the thing. It's like Elizabethan theater. You play the scene, and then you turn - the audience is part of it.
I am the only actor who ever had to lose weight to play Orson Welles.
Some actors play themselves, don't they?
Basically, I got into stand-up because I'm too egocentric to be an actor and not disciplined enough to be a writer.
Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.
The actors I admire are character actors.
