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.
I love actors, number one. There's probably nobody that you could name that I don't like, depending on what it is they're in.
I'd love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins, but if that doesn't happen, I'd sneak on to a film set and watch him at work. He is a compelling actor.
I truly love the rehearsal process, those eight hours a day! I really love actors.
So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.
I've always wanted to be a singer and an actor. I will continue to concentrate on both because I love both.
I'd love to do Broadway some day. Before I started doing television I was just a primarily a stage actor, but I haven't done it in a while.
I actually love going to a lot of theater movies. I just love watching actors work and seeing how people tell stories.
I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.
Some of the roles that are challenging are more in theater and TV. In movies, there's a tendency to cast actors in roles that have been successful for them. It has to pay for itself.
Mostly in movies an actor has to come to a mark, an X, and deliver his line - but that's so artificial, that's not how people really behave.
