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There are loads of amazing actors in the UK and only 2% of them are in work, which is crazy.
I was a film student. I became an actor but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.
Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances.
Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.
I think voiceover is an adjunct that actors have picked up that have given us some security.
One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.
It's so great as an actor to get the opportunity to do something that's incredibly truthful.
As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that.
What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?
I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.
'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.
I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.
I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.
Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.
As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything.
One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.
A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.
Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.
A great actor is simply just seeing him or herself, and reacting to what exists around them.
I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my days off.
After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone.
There are far more good actors than there are jobs for them, so it's a big question of luck.
I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.
I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.
I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.
Obviously the actors are incredible at being the audience surrogates in this crazy universe.
The main fun of being an actor is that you get to bounce around to a lot of different worlds.
Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.
There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.
Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.
I haven't done any training. I come from a family of actors, but I haven't done any training.
Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life.
Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?
If you're not still learning and growing as an actor, then you have no backbone and no career
I think all actors have a sadomasochistic streak, because acting is kind of brutal, you know.
I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.
The actor side of me loves to get dressed up and I feel like Cinderella when I'm in diamonds.
My first review for the TV movie The Bionic Showdown said I was as interesting as a bus ride.
Denzel [Washington] just knows the actor. He knows the process, and you don't often get that.
If you give a scene enough room to breathe, actors will hopefully find those magical moments.
Everything makes me vulnerable, you just have to use it as an actor. It's a constant balance.
The great thing as an actor is that I don't know what my agent is going to call me with next.
The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.
I guess I'm an actor - just human behaviour's just fascinating to me. I mean, I'd like to be.
It's fun to explore areas that are taboo that you're not allowed to in real life as an actor.
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
Whenever you're making a dark comedy, you're always looking for the yin and yang in an actor.
I think that one of the strangest things about being an actor is, it's almost freelance work.