For me as an actor, it's absolutely so thrilling to hear anybody talk about the character that I play.

There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

I grew up in the theater with my mom and that's how I knew I wanted to be an actor in the first place.

Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to.

Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists.

If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.

The person you are is a thousand times more interesting than the best actor you could ever hope to be.

I had improvised a lot in classes and at the Actors Studio, but I never did it in front of the camera.

Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.

Having a director who is also an actor makes for that very relaxed way of working and it's empowering.

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

As soon as you put an actor to a person who is real, that person comes to life through another person.

Like an actor who transforms into the character that they're playing, you can transform into yourself.

An actor's life is like a series of - it's like the first day of school happening over and over again.

Woody Allen is a better actor than anybody from the Actors Studio, and he can be anybody he says he is.

If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.

I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch.

Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.

Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.

With 'Twilight,' I felt the actors needed to be up-and-coming artists that haven't been recognized yet.

There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.

Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.

The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.

Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders

In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals.

I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.

The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.

In many cases for an actor it's a comfortable position to be in. But it's harder to fail as a director.

When I grew up, the only way a lad like me would maybe escape was playing football. Not being an actor.

As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.

I would love to be able to get behind the camera and direct actors. I think that would be a lot of fun.

On the whole, British actors star in theater, and I think there's something quite grounding about that.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.

Even if you have a gift, it's nearly impossible to become a good actor in just a few weeks of training.

There are lots of actors out there who are hugely, hugely talented and haven't got the breaks I've had.

I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.

I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.

I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.

Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.

There was not an industry for child actors. I never really made any money. It was all about fun for me.

I like actors who don't have to think too hard about what they have to do to achieve their performance.

A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.

I'm identified as a New York actor, I sound like I'm from New York, and I couldn't be more proud of it.

If you're a boy, you always want to be in a western; and any actor I know would like to be in a horror.

My great joy in working on anything is stepping out in front of the camera and working with the actors.

Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves

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