If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

My favorite is Deepika Padukone. She is amazing and is a brilliant actor. She is fantastic and has come a long way

My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.

I personally believe the film turns out better when shot in one short schedule, plus it doesn't stress the actors.

It's rough to feel creatively satisfied, as an actor, for the most part, because you don't initiate your own work.

He was so good at everything he did. You can't call Ronnie Barker a comedian. He was an actor, and a great writer.

There's something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too.

The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor.

Russell Crowe is normally an actor who disappears so far into his characters you'd swear his DNA has been altered.

I am a greedy actor in the sense that I like the big bites. Put a big fat steak in front of me, and I will eat it.

I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it.

When I audition for something, I don't even want to think about who the other actors are in it, who's directing it.

I have always tried to work with first-time actors since my first movie. I always like to do movies with debutants.

The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.

Sunday is the Academy Awards. Every time an actor says, 'I didn't expect this,' Ruth Bader Ginsburg will do a shot.

We can never know... But maybe it's because no black actors merited being nominated.Why put people into categories?

My favorite actor is Sir Ben Kingsley - nobody is as good as him, in my opinion. I think he's so good as an artist.

I like to give the actors freedom to take what we have on the page and improve on it. And they do that quite a bit.

I think when you work on a Woody Allen film the actors become a real company, probably more than on any other film.

If you're a good actor, then you channel enough of yourself into the character so that you do get that other thing.

I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.

Nothing is harder than working with an actor who doesn't take it seriously or show up in the same way that you are.

How strange or odd some'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on.

The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.

I'm an actor and I love to find new collaborations and new characters where I can grow as an actor and human being.

More actors in action movies should be gangly because that way it's believable when they move through tight spaces.

I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.

I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor.

I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.

Basically, I got into stand-up because I'm too egocentric to be an actor and not disciplined enough to be a writer.

Actors want to be told what to do - they really do. But they also want to have an input and be recognized for that.

I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job.

I feel very fortunate to be an actor on a network whose tag line is Characters Welcome and not Procedurals Welcome.

The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.

I had very few skills. If I hadn't been a producer I'd been a failed actor. That would have been really disastrous.

What's so fascinating about people is what they don't show. People are masters at it; usually actors show too much.

I'm like this mercenary actor going from show to show - people love to hire me, but then don't want me around much.

When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.

If I wasn't an actor? Hmm, I'd probably be a serial killer. I'm just so damn likeable, no one would ever suspect me.

No doubt, my role in 'Urumi' has been one of my best so far. It surprised me as an actor and made me more confident.

I always love watching those natural actors like Bill Cosby, Raven-Symone and Shia LaBeouf - just effortless actors.

That's the worst thing for an actor: when you say to someone, "Yeah, I was in that movie," and they say, "You were?"

I know a lot of actors who've just gotten bitter because they did something and then nobody ever saw it or whatever.

I don't define myself as an actor at all. Nor is that my greatest passion in life by any stretch of the imagination.

In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.

I think anytime you can do something you haven't seen or done in a film before, it's always a great day as an actor.

It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.

I know other actors who are relieved when their shows get cancelled, and I've never felt that way about 'Community.'

I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It's more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.

Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.

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