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It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
I consider Laurence [Fishburn], Keanu [Reeves], both very acclaimed actors, I mean so good.
I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things.
I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.
The biggest compliment I think an actor can get is I can't imagine anyone else in the role.
I don't have to meet actors. I'm really blessed that I don't have to do all that horseshit.
Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster.
I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character.
You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself.
There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor.
I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.
The thing with Ryan, you can look at him for hours. Very few actors have that. It's a gift.
I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
It was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly.
The reason my films work is because every actor on set is very secure. They're able to fly.
The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people.
When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out.
I am a filmmaker fanatic. I have never been star-struck by an actor once in my entire life.
The thing I love about being an actor is the ability to travel and experience new cultures.
I don't understand the actor that chooses to play the same role in everything all the time.
With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is.
I didnt know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didnt know any arty types.
I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.
I always wanted to be an actor. I had the arrogance to believe I couldn't be anything else.
As an actor, people are always criticizing you so it just made me fall in love with myself.
I think actors' careers have highs and lows, and ups and downs. It just really all depends.
I'm not one of those actors who gets physically fit for a role and then loses it all again.
My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.
The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.
The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime
No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.
My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.
Actors are as anxious about the state of audiences as aviators are over weather conditions.
As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.
In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.
Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.
Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.
I can't remember ever being involved in a fight in a movie where I haven't done most of it.
It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.
I think that's part of the fun of being an actor - you get to not be normal all of the time.
I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force.
Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.
I'm not a good actor, I can play myself and a much gayer version of myself. That's my range.
I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.
I'm a grinding actor. That's how I've always viewed myself. You go from one job to the next.