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When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.
Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear. And I beg them not to imitate me, because I'm not a good actor.
When most actors finally get to L.A., I think they expect to be the next Will Smith or Denzel Washington and that's not the case.
Actors should arouse a sense of wonder because of their ability to exceed what the spectators can envision ever being able to do.
It's really, really, really difficult to have the same occupation as the person you're with - especially when you're both actors.
You have to find actors who have the ability to display a wide range of emotion effectively. That's so much harder than it seems.
It's difficult to judge other actors, because as an actor you're looking at different things than what an audience is looking at.
God, I hate interviews with actors pouncing on. Who wants to know about their lives? I don't want to know about Al Pacino's life.
At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.
If you decide to become a political actor, then the things that you say and you do become subject of public scrutiny and comment.
Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
Everything that I've done was prudent and never has anyone gotten hurt in my films - not a single actor, not a single extra, ever.
You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact.
I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.
When you deal with a film that takes place in Europe, and you're going to work in English, you'd better work with European actors.
I just crushed Stranger Things. It's got one of my favorite actors, David Harbour. And obviously Breaking Bad and stuff like that.
Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
I try to always be open to what the actors want to try. I don't storyboard and try to be intuitive and open on the day of filming.
If you're working with a director you trust, you can turn that part of you off that wants to direct other actors in a certain way.
A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.
I think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold and up and down, but no one will kick me out of the business.
I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.
In TV, there's so much compromise, it does start to grate a bit. But if you're a writer or an actor, it really is the place to be.
If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an actor.
I'm not one of those actors that goes to watch the playback, after every take. I really don't like it, and I don't want to see it.
In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second.
The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors.
I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.
It's such a gift when you know who you're writing for and you know that that actor is capable of so much that you can relax a bit.
I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion.
I love a lot of comedy actors and actresses like Kristen Wiig and Tina Fey and all those women who are really brilliant and funny.
Ive always been very comfortable in a set environment. All the collaborating going on, seeing how actors work - it all excites me.
George Clooney is a super-human, he's just such an amazing human being, he taught me how to be a better person and a better actor!
Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.
I always wanted to be an actor, but my top three favorite actors of all time are Al Pacino, James Dean and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.
I love working fast. I don't relish the director who wants to do 25 to 30 takes, or the actors who insist on doing 25 or 30 takes.
As an actor, when you're doing comedies, you're around fantastic, funny people and you hopefully have a really good time doing it.
I know certain actors are totally screwed up on drugs, yet it gets covered up. Why wasn't I excused for 'exhaustion' or 'the flu'?
I don't think that there's much hiding that actors can do. If you're doing good work, you're showing a part of yourself to someone.
I love actors who are wonderful - like John Cusack and Russell Crowe, and wouldn't it be a treat to eventually direct them one day.
If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.
The best notes are action-based and less, I don't know, heady, theoretical, because, as actors, we're too much in our heads anyway.
I think as an actor, it's very exciting when you have a really fully realized, complex, multifaceted character already established.
I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it.
Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.
Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.
Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I've never worked with anyone I've trusted so completely. He won't let you hit a false note.
The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.
One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.