I would tell anyone who wanted to be an actor not to bother with drama school.
Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that.
I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody.
I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.
An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.
The truth in acting is that we are all hired help. We are a commodity. There is no difference between being an actor and pork bellies.
I don't want actors to know anything. The more they are lost, the better they play.
Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.
Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.
One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
It is often difficult to watch yourself onscreen, especially 60-feet high. As an actor, it is an uncomfortable experience.
It has been a great experience to act in Hollywood movies with actors like Ben Kingsley.
I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.
The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.
I'm the third or fourth generation of actor in my family; I'm sure if they were butchers, I'd be a butcher, too.
I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.
As an actor, sometimes you feel a pressure to change yourself from time to time.
I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.
I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him.
