I started as a director, but I was too bored with actors. I preferred to act.

I want to direct and work with the youngins and the fabulous actors of today.

I became an actor so I can show you characters and never have to show you me.

I used to love fast food because I had no money, and I was a struggling actor.

Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director.

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide but being an actor has opened my soul.

Here's what I knew about doing a play: I knew it would make me a better actor.

There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.

Focus on making you the best you can be as an actor, and follow your own path.

I'm best known as a stand-up comedian, but I'm a good actor in the right role.

As an actor, anything that you have to help get you into character is helpful.

A successful swindler has to be a great salesman even more than a great actor.

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.

As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.

I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.

I love recording lines. It's like being an actor without having to really act.

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.

I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed.

Every once in a while as an actor, you do something that the kids really like.

Parenthood has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.

The thing about many celebrities - not all - is that they're fantastic actors.

A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.

I don't know if child actors are necessarily more screwed up than most people.

Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.

The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors.

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

My sensitivity level is high, but I think that's one of my assets as an actor.

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors

We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it.

You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.

Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.

Interviews are good if you want to be an actor because they raise your profile.

As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.

It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.

I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.

As an actor, I still dont really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.

I was born an ordinary actor. I will die an ordinary actor. But I've persisted.

As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.

I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.

That would have been a great ticket, Reagan and Ford - an actor and a stuntman.

The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.

I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

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