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I hate it when there's a good movie, someone overhypes it and I'm disappointed that I don't like it more.
As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role.
I love seeing when actors go from one genre to the next because I feel like most of them can pull it off.
I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor.
New York is the greatest character actor ever. Any film that is shot in New York is elevated by the city.
For an actor, playing one character and transitioning to a completely different one is a dream come true.
I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.
I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor.
Truthfully, I wish I had a daily routine. It's hard being an actor because you never have a set schedule.
You act with your soul. That's why you all want to be actors, because your souls are not used up by life.
My career is very easy to interpret. It's about working. I'm a working actor, so that's how I see myself.
As much as Id love to be a successful actor, the thought of being recognised in the street is petrifying.
Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.
I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.
I think there are a lot of actors who act because they have an impulse to do it and they can't ignore it.
You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.
Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.
To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.
I don't want to be just somebody short who happens to act. I hope my legacy will be Warwick Davis, Actor.
You always like to learn from people as a young actor. I think every young actor says that, but its true.
I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.
A famous actor, Edmund Kean, on his deathbed, was reported to have said, "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard."
I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.
Honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out.
When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.
You hear this said about actors sometimes, that they're fearless, but she [ Maggie Gyllenhaal] really is.
Who could have asked for anything better? I was cast in movies with great actors, with great leading men.
That's the reason you want to become a star as an actor, to be able to have more control of your destiny.
The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.
Actors who say they don't watch TV are stupid. I was raised by TV! And it's how I research for auditions.
If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.
Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.
If youre not concerned about maintaining an image, you can pursue roads that another actor might not take.
So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started.
I knew that I always wanted to be a filmmaker, an actor, a writer and a director, that was always my plan.
Soaps are a great springboard for any actor but if you want to be taken seriously, you have to be careful.
A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.
In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.
As an actor, I think most people have a tendency to want to demonstrate that they can act, they can emote.
Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.
I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.
It's a phenomenon that I see with young actors - a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors.
I think there are certain actors that have that kind of energy about them, that taking over a room energy.
I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?
I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff.
I'm just an actor who happened to love these [Marvel] comics when I was a kid, and got to rediscover them.
When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking.
I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off.
As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.