As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.
There's something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too.
John Goodman is more that just a big guy, he's a wonderful actor.
The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.
Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
I wasn't one of those people who went to see a play and said, 'I want to be an actor.' I fell into it.
Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.
I don't know, as long as I get to evolve and grow as an actor and as a person, that's the stuff I'm after.
If I was just considered a looker and wasn't considered an actor, where would I be in 10 or 20 years from now?
In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.
For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.
I think actors are brave souls that have to use parts of themselves that I'm just not comfortable doing anymore.
I would never assume to tell another actor how to do his job!
Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.
As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role.
My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors.
I know that I'm a decent actor, but it's another thing to be in a scene with Jon Hamm and hold your own.
I'd see child actors and I'd get so jealous, because they're just completely wide open.
The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.
I think at a certain point actors need to start taking responsibility for the kinds of stories they want to tell.
