My mother says I was two and a half when I first mentioned I wanted to be an actor. My father said, 'The word is pronounced 'Doctor!'
I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.
I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.
When you're a comedic actor and you're used to just getting laughs, it's kind of scary to go serious, even for a second.
I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.
What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.
Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through.
There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.
I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.
Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's what I like.
I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it.
I'm pretty captivated by reality TV and I know that as an actor I probably shouldn't be saying that, but it's what I like to watch.
My biggest fantasy as an actor is to be in situations that make me uncomfortable and force me out of my comfort zone.
I'm so thankful for the Internet because actors and singers and performers now have a way to connect with their fans on a very personal level which I think is quite special.
I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.
As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.
I realized that I needed to be anonymous on the street and somebody else on the stage. I had tried to put my street self on the stage, but what they want is an actor on stage.
Sometimes when an actor says something almost perfect, but you know you have to edit it, if you tell them to change something immediately, it will come out great.
Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.
I will never date an actor or a model. My family will never accept her. We are a middle class family, and an actress will never be able to gel with us.
I am not interested in entertaining people. I think being an actor provides an opportunity to give people an experience they can connect to, reflect on, learn from, laugh at.
