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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before.
One good thing about TV Land is you're always surrounded by people who know what they're doing, in terms of your fellow actors.
I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in one day.
There's no greater honor, as an actor, to be a part of a project that changes lives, and awakens and enlightens and entertains.
Ryan Gosling. He was a good kid, good actor. I like him very much. What was the name of the movie? I've forgotten it. Fracture.
I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.
Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.
I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.
I've got actor friends who didn't get breaks, who struggle and worry about things that I'm fortunate not to have to worry about.
Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.
And, you know, when you are a kid, everybody wants to be an actor. I think that everybody wants to be in show business, frankly.
To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.
The room is full of such talent. It's a beautiful thing about the SAG Awards. It's the most rewarding room to be in as an actor.
I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that.
The secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors.
And when I was a kid being an actor was not cool. I'm thirty now and when I was a kid in the 80s that wasn't a cool thing to be.
Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one.
He[John Cassavetes] was just being an actor. A very successful actor, especially in live TV. He did many wonderful performances.
I've always watched actors on the red carpet getting drunk and making idiots of themselves and now I'm happy to join their ranks
I thought 'I can't be an actor, I can't'. Then this film came up and it was like someone saying to me, 'You can, don't give up'.
I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.
It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.
Whenever I mention Greg Kinnear's name to anyone, they always say, "Oh, love him!" He's a really terrific actor, and very funny.
What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats... or skinny.
Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes.
As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to say to the world.
My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor and if fame follows suit, that's fine.
To be a working actor in England is a life. I think it's harder in this country. Either you are a superstar or a starving actor.
Apparently Jamie is great at being soft and hard at the same time. Which is hard to do for an actor! He's going to get an Oscar!
To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.
Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.
After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke [Kirby].
I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.
The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.
I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.
I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.
I've never trained as an actor. I've always thought I'm not a good actor. I've been told I'm not a good actor by a lot of people.
I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.
I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.
I tell the actors that the biggest gift they can give me is to fail. And that the second gift they can give me is to surprise me.
I'm one of those actors who is going to come in with 2,500 ideas. You can shoot down 2,499, but one of them you're going to like.
As an actor, you think you have to go really far and deep and cry and yell to be good in a scene. Sometimes that's not the point.
It's what actors call a big, juicy part, when you're a leading man. I don't get a lot of those. I get a lot of supporting things.
Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.
I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.
I am always surprised at what movie studios think people will want to see. I'm even more surprised at how often they are correct.
I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.
As an actor, I have to be fulfilled in the roles that I play; it has to be a journey for me to learn something or involve myself.
As a character actor, I've learned that you have to watch yourself because nobody else is watching. Nobody is concerned with you.