There are some actors who are my contemporaries who I think of as purebreds and I'm not.

That's one of the fun parts of becoming an actor: You can become whoever you want to be.

I'm a journeyman actor, and I don't ever want to forget that. With romantic-lead dreams.

The journey that we go on as actors is an interesting one and sometimes a revealing one.

Now I don't want to feel cornered as an actor, because I've got a wider range than that.

I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.

As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.

I had always planned to be an actor, and the music was just in my DNA, it's always been.

An actor is an expert at being someone else. A speaker is an expert at being themselves.

There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.

Each actor is a very different person, and each one has to be directed very differently.

It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.

It'd be hard to be a lead actor if I didn't have lips. Those are tough to graft back on.

I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.

I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

When you're working with really good actors, it raises your own game and you get better.

The last thing you want is an injured actor. That, or having to use a stuntman too much.

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.

I loved B.I.G., but not like I liked Tupac, because he was an actor, so I related to him.

I went to USC for writing. I was judgmental of actors and their Starbucks and fancy cars.

To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast.

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

I might have been curious about actors' lives when I was growing up. That's human nature.

As an actor, you are always looking for something fresh and interesting and not ordinary.

I try to encourage actors to work harder off screen because that's where you find things.

It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?

Keanu Reeves is, like, the worst actor I've ever seen. I can't believe he's a movie star.

Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actor's life.

Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.

In this business actors who have Botox or surgery make you very aware of age. It's awful.

I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."

There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.

Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power.

As actors we give so much of ourselves away so I like to keep my personal life to myself.

Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.

People sometimes forget how important #‎ Broadway is as a place for young actors to grow.

I'll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working.

What you always try to do, as an actor, is find the thing that's universal in the person.

I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.

I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there's some redundancy in that...

I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

Some actors - you work with them once and don't even think about working with them again.

It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.

I didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor.

I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.

Seriously, I would go in a second. I'd be the first actor in space and I'd love to do it.

Any actor will tell you that you go where the work is, especially when you have children.

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