I've wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little boy.
The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor.
An actor's most important responsibility is to know lines well.
Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.
Somehow I seem to have been gently bypassed as a serious actor.
Acting is a craft, and you need to study to be an actor.
This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors.
I dreamt of being an actor ever since I was young.
I don't care about how much other actors get.
I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
I never did anything as an actor that I was extremely proud of.
When I started out I was a failed actor.
On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that.
I'm an actor, I'm not a comedian, I never was a comedian.
People don't want their actors acting like musicians.
No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.
All actors almost always try to steal some of their wardrobe.
As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.
The actor's life is the road. Always has been, always will be. That is his cross and his glory.
Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.