Sci-fi fans really have a commitment to the characters even as much as the actors do. There's a synergy between making television and who gets to watch it.
I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
I think there's a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They're all three different things.
A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what you want to do.
I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.
Being an actor somehow can be a perverse extension of that feeling we generally all have as children, that feeling of wanting to please. Of course you're looking for affirmation, encouragement.
I think a lot of actors take on fun roles and then they're lazy or flippant with them. I just can't do that.
One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role.
A perfect weekend in London has to start on Friday night, by going to the theatre, the Donmar or the National. It's a cliche for an actor, but I enjoy going as much as possible.
I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.
I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.
Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.
To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.
I've been on jobs where there's that one actor who is just a miserable, miserable no-good, dirty bastard, and it just turns the whole process sour.
I'm not of the manor born; I've never felt entitled in that way. I just came to Hollywood to be an actor. All that lifestyle stuff is something to be managed.
Actors come in, and they have their own take on things, and you have to adjust on the fly to make sure everything still works structurally and dramatically.
I play a crazy talk-show host, but that's not me. It's like an actor playing a role.
You can't believe Russell Crowe is the same actor who won an Oscar one year ago for Gladiator.
Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.
I think audiences, producers and directors included, develop crushes on actors (actresses in particular) and then lose interest and move on to the next one.
