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If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.
God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around.
I love exploring in a rehearsal room with other actors, scenes and you know, stuff you are scared of.
Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do - honesty but subtlety.
At the end of the day, what actors really want to do is act a lot and not wait around in the trailer.
The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life.
A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies.
The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.
As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
It's always fun to do action and explosion, but I really enjoyed directing the emotion of the actors.
I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception.
Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.
When I was 11 I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.
We actors, we're a fragile bunch, and yet we need to be strong because 90% of our lives is rejection.
Working with amazing people, you continue to learn and develop yourself, as an actor and as a person.
Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.
If the actor has a problem, I can just go in and fix it right away. I think it speeds up the process.
I went on to host a kids' program from when I was around 10 until 15. In some ways I'm a child actor.
I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was....I always wanted to be a movie actor.
You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.
As an actor, it doesn't happen often that somebody sends you a script that is first of all that good.
There's a lot of us idiot actors that get tattoos and they cover them with makeup when you do a film.
I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.
I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
Of course, people told me, 'Mikey, you will never be an actor. You don't have the look. You're ugly.'
The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing.
I was very introverted. I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people.
Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'
I've never revised my opinion of myself as an actor. I've always thought I was as good as my material.
Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.
I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director.
There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year.
Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance.
Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.
Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell.
As an actor, your motives and your own crazy psyche is really all you're responsible for in the movie.
I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take me.
There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movie.
Working is the best way to understand and grow, as an actor, in my opinion. That's been my experience.
Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.
I don’t like writing for comedians. I like writing for actors. The best comedians are the best actors.
The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'
Yeah, I had to change my name because there were two other actors registered at Equity with that name.
I wasn't one of those people who went to see a play and said, 'I want to be an actor.' I fell into it.
Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.
Thank you to my wonderful actors, the triangle of man-love which is Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and me.
I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.
I depended on chiropractic care when I was an athlete. I depend on it now as a busy film and TV actor.