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Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.
How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun.
There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.
I like being meticulous and it's quite difficult as an actor to have that much control.
You're literally being an actor - you're pretending - and that's not what I like to do.
Without chiropractic care, I couldn't have existed with my work as a TV and film actor.
As an actor, it's much, much easier to be really nasty to someone that you really like.
[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.
If I can be a working actor, if I can be an actor and not have a day job, I'll be fine.
What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words.
I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.
As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors.
I have no regrets, except perhaps one: I should have tried harder to be a better actor.
I feel lucky to be an actor because you always learn something from each part you play.
Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.
There is no question that sobriety has made me a better actor, made me a better person.
I'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road.
Being on 'Batman' allowed me to do something we actors are taught never to do: overact.
Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.
The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.
I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.
The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.
It's an enormous relief to go to work and be an actor and not be worried about writing.
I'd see child actors and I'd get so jealous, because they're just completely wide open.
As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.
And there are lots of moments when I think, ‘What am I doing as an actor? I can’t act!’
I thought I was an actor playing a wizard. But really, I was a wizard playing an actor.
About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.
There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.
I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.
Everyone wants to label me, but I don't want to be labeled as a rapper or a movie actor.
You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.
I blame Walt Disney; well he has to find voice actors better than me somehow doesn't he?
The most brilliant actor that I have ever worked with. I've liked others very much more.
I think that an actor is more likely to be forgiven in the public's eye than an actress.
Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.
If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
I'm going to ask what is correct, what I deserve, especially in relation to male actors.
I have been a depressed kid. I wanted to lead a quiet life, never wanted to be an actor.
I would love to work with Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I think they're wonderful actors.
Mr. Hitchcock did not say actors are cattle. He said they should be treated like cattle.
Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.
I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.
I can bring in experiences that other actors who only grew up in television do not have.
You have to love, without judgment, every actor that you're working with to make beauty.
I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.
A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.