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As a director, I wouldn't like me as an actor. As an actor, I wouldn't like me as a director.
I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.
I'm a character actor, so as a character actor, I'm always looking for something interesting.
For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.
I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.
Thats the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.
You know I hate watching myself on TV, I know a lot of actors say that, but it's true for me.
I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.
If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid.
I don't call myself an actor, I call myself an entertainer, because I don't just do one thing.
I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.
Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.
If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.
The crew, the actors and the writers all work the same way. We always want to do the best job.
I just wanted to be a guy who could earn a living as an actor, and I did that for a long time.
I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.
I thought I was going to go back to Stanford, and then I got Election. I loved being an actor.
Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.
An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.
I'm an actor who loves to get physical so any role that allows me to access that is glorious.
I wanted to shoot the sex scenes unadorned so that the actors could really live in the moment.
My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.
A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.
But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.
Actors always think that others are getting more work than them. In my case, they usually are.
I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.
But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.
Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.
I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.
I always hated the world "acting" - to say, "I'm an actor." It should be more like a believer.
Actors strive to be part of something like 'Twilight' and what 'Twilight' is, is unbelievable.
You've only got a short shelf-life as an actor, and I want to make the most of it while I can.
If you held a pistol at my head, I couldn't tell you who they're going to vote for Best Actor.
The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.
It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.
You know those actors who have a sense for how they should be used? I don't think I have that.
I don't want fame. I want to grow as an actor and a person while having my family and my life.
I always made a living as an actor when I came to California. I never had to do anything else.
I have to say as an actor I have been inspired by so many British actors throughout the years.
I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it.
Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us.
After every single take, I laugh. It's my own awkwardness and discomfort about being an actor.
Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life.
It's of course understandable that people want to know about actors in their favourite series.
I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.
I don't think there have been many alien movies where the actors have actually seen the aliens.
As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.
I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.