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Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.
I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.
Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
I don't think many actors are that good, to be honest. I certainly don't think I am.
Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.
I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.
As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.
The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.
You know, Tupac is very near and dear to my heart. He started my career as an actor.
Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.
Every actor wants to find a piece of work that's innovative and powerful and moving.
To grow: that is your deepest and truest need when you say, 'I want to be an actor.'
Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.
Frankie [Avalon] ... was interested in eating everything so it didn't eat him first.
When you're working, nobody's a star. We're all just actors trying to figure it out.
Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.
Any actor worth his salt has a responsibility to reinvent himself from part to part.
People don't know and they shouldn't know that you work incredibly hard as an actor.
Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.
I do this profession. I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people.
As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.
If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology.
I have only really gotten by with playing versions of myself as most young actors do.
I was never an actor. I had done one or two random projects in my advertising career.
Big actors want to work in television because they see it as being new and different.
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
Who says that actors are cattle? Show me a cow who can earn a million dollars a film.
Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.
As an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time.
Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.
I'm as interested in photographing the film crew as much as the actors and actresses.
Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.
The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.
I spent so many years trying to become an actor, trying to be a person that I wasn't.
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
You look for those actors or actresses that fit the personality to populate the film.
I have a lot of actors I want to work with; Brad Pitt, Keanu Reeves, and Uma Thurman.
I became an actor because I didn't know what else to do. Academically, I wasn't good.
I love any kind of recognition because as an actor I'm very hard on myself sometimes.
An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.
I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.
If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.
I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.
As a model you do play a certain role and you know as an actor you play another role.
I think with the best actors, emotion is something that has no kind of check in them.
I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.
One of the wonderful things about being an actor is that every director is different.
I just don't feel like part of the fraternity of actors. I do geek out. All the time.