A lot of the actors I knew threw in the towel when they became mothers. I couldn't do that financially, and I didn't want to - but I was knackered all the time.
It's very difficult being an actor and being away for a lot of time, but my sons haven't complained too much too often.
Maybe it took a little time, or we're a little late, but finally we're recognizing that international stars are fantastic. They're the greatest actors in the world, and few people know that.
I am a huge Bollywood fan, and my favourite actor of all time is Shah Rukh Khan.
You spend most of your time as an actor unemployed, so you're not going to hear me complaining that I haven't had a day off in three weeks.
We actors do this to pretend, to go into imaginary circumstances, so when the imaginary circumstance is of a different time, that just compounds the joy of doing what we do.
Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.
Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.
I think there's actually a benefit to working with teen actors: they've got such boundless energy, and everybody is willing to try different things.
The truth is, ever since I was little, I've wanted to be an actor more than I ever wanted to be a movie star.
When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.
I'd rather spend my time with grape growers than actors. In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.
I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.
I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.
Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes.
I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts in exactly the same way.
Sean Penn, for his acting as well as his writing and directing. There are so many actors I respect, but his reach is so wide.
The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
There are a lot of directors out there who are very specific, visual craftsmen, and while I have the utmost respect for that, they don't really communicate with the actors.
I started to see acting as a real science. That really helped me grow as an actor.
A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.
