The true excitement comes from the actors - that gives you the true drama - and whatever I can do with the camera, that's icing on the cake.
You have to have wonderful actors for material, particularly difficult material that requires complicated performances.
In TV, there's so much compromise, it does start to grate a bit. But if you're a writer or an actor, it really is the place to be.
I have my dream job! As a young person training as an actor, walking on the WB studio lot is a dream in itself.
There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.
I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.
No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional caricature.
I like the idea of up-and-coming actors nowadays being a little different and not necessarily the drama-school stereotype, being a bit more edgy.
I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.
Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.
When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.
I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.
I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.
I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films.
There are actors in this town who made important careers for a long, long period just by taking the parts that Cary Grant turned down.
I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.
Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould.
The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.
Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter.
As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't.
There's a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor.
