Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.
I have had a lot of training as an actor, but it's very different than being on set.
Each role demands the right actor. To play an artist, one must be an artist.
As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.
Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.
From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.
I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.
From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.
My first film as an actor was 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' a glorious experience that spoiled me for future films.
Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.
I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.
Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience.
I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.
If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work as a director.
Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe place.
My family has always supported me completely and kept me grounded. I never got lost in child Hollywood actor weirdness.
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.
I just went into this business for laughs. I guess I don't mind being an actor so much now.
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.
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in.
