Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.
This particular film highlights Ben and Owen's strengths which is that they are great comedic actors with tremendous chemistry and they do a really good job.
But I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century.
I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century.
Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong.
I worked with Roger Moore on three episodes of 'The Saint.' He is a lovely man, a good director, and was my favourite actor to work with.
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.
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.
One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man.
You can't be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.
It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.
Jake Johnson wanted to make clear that he was the great American actor, not just the funny guy on 'New Girl.'
In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and funny voices.
I snootily say I can't take too many dramatic parts, as it's taking work from actors who aren't funny.
I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.
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.
I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.
Shows have asked a lot of actors to take cuts. Shows are going off the air. So okay, life goes on.
The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.
