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I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.
I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.
I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I am. I am going to be that.
I honestly think I'm just an actor. It doesn't matter the medium. I can go on stage and be happy, I can be on TV and be happy.
As an actor, it's my job to make everything interesting and exciting and new. If I'm not doing my job well, then I'm stealing.
I did not want to be an actor because my whole family did it-going into the family business was the last thing I wanted to do.
There are only so many hilarious actors so when they cross-pollinate, people assume it's always the same actors and directors.
When an actor is offered a role, more often than not - maybe 90 percent of the time - you read it and you say, "I'll take it."
For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.
I love physical comedy. Comedy that comes from an emotional place is amazing too and lets me develop in a new way as an actor.
My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.
Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity.
Sometimes you choose the wrong actor, he could be the best actor ever, but hes not cast in the right part then it doesnt work.
I didn't grow up wanting to become an actor at all. I wanted to be a sports trainer and I was actually an aerobics instructor.
As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room.
You have to let people find out who they are as actors and pull their strengths out based upon what they can actually do best.
There's a misperception about actors that we actually choose the roles we end up doing - it's more that we're chosen for them.
I don't get the point in a lot of biopics, they're boring. You know what's gonna happen. You're just watching actors show off.
Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.
For me, the most important thing is that I feel comfortable with the actor that I'm working with and I'm able to talk to them.
I'm really not interested in showing me or playing me. My gift as an actor, given to me, is to be able to become other people.
My thing is to gain the respect as an actor, as a professional, and the friendship and everything else will happen from there.
I really feel that if I did another [Narnia] film I'd just be repeating myself and I don't really want to do that as an actor.
Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.
So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.
I dont want to be just considered a breakout comedic supporting actor. I want to be a breakout actor in anything thats a lead.
It's a pretty good job being an actor, but it's work sometimes. And when I say work, I mean it's a job. You're going to a job.
You have to remember that actors are human beings. Which is hard sometimes because they look so much better than human beings.
As actors, it is our responsibility to read the newspapers, and then say what we read on television like it's our own opinion.
I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every opportunity that comes along.
I was never famous as a kid. That's the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is that I wasn't famous as a kid.
I've done stuff to pay my dues and that's what actors are supposed to do, because I was a really bad actor when I was 18 or 20.
Trust...trust your fellow actors to support you; trust them to come through if you lay something heavy on them; trust yourself.
In that way, as an actor in particular, you're powerless. And so in that way as an actor in particular you can't make mistakes.
Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
Don [ Handfield] was actually one of the first guys I met in town back in '94. He was an actor and a writer and all this stuff.
For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.
There are not that many jobs as an actor where you don't get to know what your character will be doing from episode to episode.
As an actor, you want as much variety as you can muster up. Otherwise you just keep playing the same chord over and over again.
There are so many talented people in film today. There seem to be poor scripts, but the actors and actresses are very talented.
The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.
I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part.
As an actor, you get hired for what you last did. And I guess it just becomes your choice or obligation to do different things.
We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?
I am so used to being able to express myself from being an actor. So when people don't understand me, I'm just completely lost.
I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling.
That's the first time I've been involved in such a big way as a voice actor and this script [Voltron] is very matter of factly.
I don't really study television or how things do or don't change. So I don't know anything about that. I'm just a stupid actor.
I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.
The Russian famous actors involved [into The Darkest Hour], they are very creative and they will create sympathetic characters.