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I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone.
I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a human being.
[To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit.
I think having healthy relationships makes me feel much more confident and available to do good work as an actor.
I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.
There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.
When you have another actor as your boss, they understand how to communicate easier sometimes than just a writer.
Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.
Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before.
Every actor is different so you cannot become best friends on Day One. You just have to learn to know each other.
Auditioning is extremely bizarre. Just being an actor is extremely bizarre, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
I'm a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors.
I've been given lots of great advice, in my life. As an actor, just being as honest and as present as you can be.
The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.
As much as I loved [Al] Pacino and [Robert] De Niro and wanted to be a dramatic actor, I also grew up on sitcoms.
As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
Before becoming an actor I kind of just wanted to paint and live somewhere and do something low-key and artistic.
I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.
Anyone who hears enough laughter and applause at a young age will become an actor, whether they intend to or not.
Sometimes everything you need to know to be an actor in your mid-forties, you learn before you were 15 years old.
I suppose expectations are strange and I shy away from them. And the whole point of being an actor is to connect.
There's a lot of egos with actors. We certainly don't like to be directed by other actors, or anything like that.
The first time I had got an offer to come to Hollywood, I turned it down. I said, "No, I'm an actor of the stage.
Before I was 14, I wanted to be a singer, an actor, or a hockey player. By 15, I knew I was going to be a singer.
My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.
I feel much more comfortable as a writer than an actor. I feel like I am a much better writer than I am an actor.
I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.
It's just nice to do something a bit different, and I guess when you're an actor, you have the license to do that.
A market is not politically neutral; its existence creates economic power which one actor can use against another.
I still don't think I'm a good actor. The only reason I'm doing it is because I've got a lot of support behind me.
I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.
I'm not a broad comedy guy. I've been funny in movies, but I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who's sometimes funny.
I really enjoy talking to actors or filmmakers that enjoy that process of creating and how they go about doing it.
I think most actors will tell you the same thing; when you're not working you put 100 percent into every audition.
As an actor, you wouldn't be able to play a character if you were worried about the reaction to what you're doing.
I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself.
If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to do that.
Laurence [Fishburne] is a great example of how to communicate to the audience as you're acting with another actor.
Everyone thinks I'm a comedian - which I am and are. I was born into a comedic family but I'm trained as an actor.
When I do scenes with Alec Baldwin, he just stares at my boobs. That's how good of an actor he is, he finds a way.
Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.
God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was.
I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.
I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevitability on some level.
I've always believed that as an actor anything you're asked to do is within you. You just have to try and find it.
As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.
Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.
I look at it like, I'm just a character actor. If I get cast as the stoned sidekick, fine. But I just want to act.
I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
Everyone fails. Everyone is constantly failing. It is all part of life, and especially this job of being an actor.