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I've had the pleasure to work with a lot of very great actors. And they're too different to say who's the best.
I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.
Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.
Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.
I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style.
I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.
It's a point of pride that no one would treat me any differently because I'm an actor than if I was a gardener.
I know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless. It's part of my nature. I wouldn't be an actor if I wasn't.
There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.
I only really watch my own films, I don't watch any other films and I don't particularly like any other actors.
Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter.
Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.
Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That's all an actor is. He's like a serious Bruce Forsyth.
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.
The script is the foundation, but it's not the full story for the film, which only comes alive with the actors.
Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story.
I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.
I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre.
I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.
When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.
I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.
For me as an actor, I use a lot of music. Music is a huge part of developing and getting into a certain mindset.
Dude, I didn't say Jude Law can't act. I didn't say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just said he's in every movie.
What actor do you really take seriously who becomes a singer? It's kind of ridiculous. I can't think of anybody.
It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.
With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.
I always found something strangely paternal about the director-actor relationship. Actors want so much approval.
I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.
One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.
The most dangerous thing for an actor is to refuse to listen to anyone else, to feel you know more than anybody.
The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.
I like Edward G. Robinson - he started as a character actor and became a lead, which is probably why I like him.
As an actor, Sean [Penn] is brilliant. And he's really an excellent director, as well. We got along really well.
You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by you as an actor.
I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.
I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.
As an actor, you are at the mercy of others for what role you can be seen for and then what you will be cast in.
A lot of actors think they can't be happy without the acting... But I think I couldn't be happy with it anymore.
When we think of an actor, we think of a tanned, frosted-tipped, model-looking guy. We don't think of a plumber.
Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.
I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.
It's better to find a stunt person who can act. It's easier to do that than to find an actor who can do a stunt.
The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.
The only reason I did Showtime was Robert De Niro. I definitely consider him to be in the top 5 all time actors.
Like all independent movies, the first thing you're looking for is a name actor who will justify your financing.
I think as you mature as an actor things open up to you in a lot of ways, especially if you do work on yourself.
The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never going to do as a director.
I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.