I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.
I think most actors will tell you the same thing; when you're not working you put 100 percent into every audition.
I'm a grinding actor. That's how I've always viewed myself. You go from one job to the next.
They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors.
I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.
I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the same - although with videogames it requires a lot of imagination.
I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.
Most actors are very grateful for what is as opposed to what will be. You spend 98% of your time looking for a job, so when you get it, it's fantastic.
Every time I work, it's an educational process because I learn by watching other actors. My career is always going to be an ongoing study.
Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.
Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.
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.
