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I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.
One of the gifts of being an actor is that you get to learn new things see the world through different eyes.
There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black actors.
Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.
I never think of myself as a celebrity - or even an actor, actually. I think of myself as a writer-director.
I don't see the point of being an actor and doing the same thing, all the time. Where's the challenge there?
Once you've been booked, people in Hollywood say, 'Oh he must be good.' All the while you're the same actor.
When they watch a movie and they know that you're in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.
It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.
I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.
Being able to work with Ridley Scott on this film is like being able to play on the Olympic team for actors.
Most actors are drawn towards historical tellings because it's one of the most simple forms of storytelling.
By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.
Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.
Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.
All of these red carpet events may seem natural for you journalists, but it doesn't feel natural for actors.
I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.
The TV industry works in this crazy system where everybody's trying to get the same actors at the same time.
When I was a younger actor, I was very immersed in it, very "method" and all that. Now, I don't give a hoot.
It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor Im a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.
I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe.
I've never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn't know how really great he is.
It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise.
I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor.
I wanted to know as the director how the actors wanted to tell this story I wanted to know what they thought.
The truth is, ever since I was little, I've wanted to be an actor more than I ever wanted to be a movie star.
I love being an actor, and that's really the bottom line - in any medium, in any genre - and I want to do it.
Its not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and its not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.
That's probably the most boring conversation you could hear - an actor talk about politics. I won't go there.
Instead of being a theater actor who sometimes does movies I became a movie actor who sometimes does theater.
I'm sure there are directors who don't like to work with actors and don't know how to be sensitive to actors.
I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
It was so much fun working with these young kid actors. We had a great time and those kids are truly amazing.
I would love to be able to do a film. I would love to be able to focus on what excites me in watching actors.
I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted.
I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it.
I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
Jason Alexander is a committed actor, he went from working on a show about nothing to actually doing nothing.
The pleasure of working with somebody who's an actor is they don't waste time with stuff that doesn't matter.
I would say, don't smoke. I'm kidding, but yeah, I did smoke in college and as a young actor and it's stupid.
Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.
Sometimes it only takes three words, so long as they're the right words, to direct an actor in the right way.
It's nice to bring the changes with everything you do. As an actor, that's what you want to do, all the time.
It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.
When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.
All actors are looking for that role that's going to define who they are. When it happens, it's a good thing.
An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.
Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.