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People tend to think when you're on dramatic films, that it's all so heavy, but it's really not when you're working with great actors.
I've been working steadily as an actor since around 1998. I wasn't well known in the public, but I was a dependable working journeyman.
I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.
I actually don't hang out with any celebrities. My closest friends are old friends. And my real close friends, none of them are actors.
The Internet kept the joke going. Abevigoda.com was devoted to updating the actor's status, as was @AbeVigodaUpdate, a Twitter account.
Recently an actor asked me to teach him how to speak fast. Wasn't I once criticised for speaking too fast? Now they're doing it my way.
Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was nice.
I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life.
I'm willing to be representative. I'm just an actor. I'm just playing a role, so even if it is a person I do not like, I would do that.
I'm an actor and I like having attention. There's a reason I like being on stage and in front of the camera, and it's that interaction.
I wasn't a huge fan of reality shows, because I'm like 'they're taking away from the actors,' but sometimes mindless is just wonderful.
As an actor, your text is your bible, so you're not making a documentary, but you still have to follow the choices made by your writer.
I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can direct a film.
We all, in fact, carry so many people inside us; the only difference is that actors get paid for it, and we sort of spruce it up a bit.
Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.
Even though I do a more traditional type of being funny on television, I still know a lot of comedians and stand-ups and improv actors.
They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.
There are some actors who are rehearsal actors, and some who are not. I am not. Having said that, I don't know what I am talking about.
Authentic stardom ... is a gift which, if it is to have any permanent significance, must be bestowed by a public rather than a manager.
The great, rewarding thing about directing is that you're overseeing the whole thing. When you're an actor, you're just one department.
It's difficult dating, as an actor because your free time is precious. The guy I end up with someday is going to have to love traveling.
Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.
It'd be nice if Asian actors could be perceived as profitable, which is the bottom line. We're perceived as not mattering much fiscally.
I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards "How did they do that?"
I'm not an actor, and I'll never call myself an actor. I've never thought of it as part of my life. I'll always be a singer, in my eyes.
A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.
The important bit for an actor is the actual shooting of it, because the minute the shoot ends, it's got nothing to do with you anymore.
When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long.
The more you live, the better an actor you are, but maybe I'd like to do something else on the side. Something to pay the bills as well.
The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the movie going consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for?
I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell.
All of the younger actors keep coming up to me and asking me where all of the land mines are because they know I've stepped on them all.
The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.
When I want to support a film starring actors I like, I purchase several tickets at the box office - even if I can't stay for the movie.
I've decided as an actor the only, the power I have really is in the performance. It's the only real place I get to sort of communicate.
All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.
Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.
If you can mix Hilary Duff and Gary Oldman into the same actor, that's my goal. I know it's strange to think about, but that's the goal.
I went to school to be an actor in Canada and realized I hated auditions once I left, which is a huge problem if you want to get a part.
Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.
Everybody wants to be a Bond villain. That is the coolest. To be able to portray a Bond villain, that is the feather in any actor's cap.
I would love to do some straight drama. A lot of times it's not up to the actor, it's up to the producer. It's up to the powers that be.
For a lot of actors, our biggest fear is that we're going to start talking about things we don't fully understand and sound like idiots.
You look at somebody's work as an actor and you can see their emotional life being fed into it and you can kind of feel them through it.
Usually, I'm the kind of actor where you show me once or twice, I can do it. I don't do it creatively, but I know how to do the process.
You're not simply entitled to be an actor - you're not an actor just because you call yourself one - you earn it. You earn it by working.
So many actors wear wigs nowadays. Besides, if someone is hiring me because of how I wear my hair, I don't want to work with them anyway.
I think I'm a pretty cliché actor in that I hate watching myself on film. I don't know why it should be humbling to see yourself on film.
Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think thats because we were trained - until now - in theatre.
It's tricky playing people that you don't like and finding a way to empathise with them. It's challenging and very exciting for an actor.