When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise.
I don't know what it's like to be an actor, where if your show gets canceled, really you're just a bum.
I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.
If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.
I had been a ballet dancer and never could make a living, and just being so excited that I got to, all of a sudden, live as an actor.
My job as an actor is to cover and expose in varying allowance that - so that the audience can peek through the window to the people I create.
My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.
I feel like I've finally made it as an actor. I've been doing this for years and you don't always make a movie that everybody likes.
And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.
Robert DeNiro, who may be the greatest living actor, usually acts in a way which is very stone-faced, like Steve McQueen.
The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.
No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.
I think actors tend to be in their element when they are pushed out of their comfort zone.
There's some part of me, as an actor, that likes attention and validation, but on any given day, depending on the style and volume of it, it can be too much.
When I was 15, 16, I studied with Stella Adler at the Conservatory of Acting, then I stopped again and went to the Actors Studio when I was 18.
You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.
Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can.
I have a career I am proud of as a child actor. I'm not running away from it or embarassed with anything I did.
Actors are all different. They're not all volatile. Some are sweet, some are volatile, but what is fundamentally in there is something that has to be paid attention to, in that they are, I would say, needy.
Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
Where I come from, out in the suburbs, I didn't know anyone who was a professional actor. And girls that looked like me? No girls like that were on TV.
