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The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'
The only reason I'm an actor is that a lady pulled out of a parking space in front of a producer's office.
When I was an actor, I was part of a team, which I loved. You are a part inside something which is larger.
I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.
Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.
I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.
I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.
I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it.
Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't.
There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.
But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.
I love working with actors. I grew up with a lot of actors. All my friends are actors. I love that process.
I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.
To be honest with you, I get a little fed up with actors who act crazy to make themselves more interesting.
I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'
You're an actor - people judge you and criticize you, and praise you and say you're great in equal measure.
I try to carve my own way so the actors who come after me will say, "I want to do it like Columbus did it."
When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
I would love to be a fly on the wall watching other directors and actors to see what their process is like.
Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.
I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.
We ask the public to believe that every time they see an actress or actor that they are a different person.
I don't consider myself a good actor at all. I just do what I want to do, and I'm just having fun doing it.
The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'.
Theater is a really exciting place to return to all the time because it's incredible training for an actor.
As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.
The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.
There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that.
Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.
Have you ever talked to someone, and you're not even really talking to them? Actors are the worst for that.
An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.
The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.
I've said this so many times but there's a magic when you have a really good actor in a really good makeup.
Music informs my work so intensely. The better actor I become, the better pianist I become, and vice versa.
I definitely believe in the energy of the set and the energy of the actor, way more than your written word.
Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.
I'm sure there are actors out there who work with other actors on a consistent basis - I am not one of them.
I don't take myself too seriously. I think that's something so many actors and people in general tend to do.
Page one of the script, I launch into, "How would I feel if I were in this position?" That's an actor's job.
We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.
If you're a serious actor, it's when you know you're going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.
I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.
One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have.
Anyone who has been given the gift of being opposite an actor who gives and gives, it just makes you better.
I know, as an actor, I don't like sharing everything with the director. And it's fine if they don't with me.
When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.
As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't.
Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed.