You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I figured I'd try it.
I grew up very comfortable in this bizarre, circus-like existence, but, as comfortable as I was, I was also aware of the struggles that actors go through.
Actors look for characters. If they read a well-written character, and if they think the director's not an idiot, they're going to sign up and do some acting.
The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.
Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.
I'm an athletic actor. I'm known for my action; I'm a guy who does my own stunts on screen.
Some actors give you what you want. Some you have to make do what you want.
We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.
For some actors, their star shines brightly and fizzles out. My star doesn't shine that brightly, but it buzzes along. Hopefully, that means it will last longer.
Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.
The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.
I like playwriting because it's rooted in a single location with actors standing talking to each other.
Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.
First of all, the actor needs to get out of the character's way. You follow the character without judgment or prejudice or preconceived ideas.
I don't like getting dressed up. It's hard because as a woman, as an actor, the whole world wants you to enjoy dressing up.
Before I became an actor, I was a visual artist, and I've always hankered for the storytelling behind the camera.
You never really know why you become an actor: it's a visceral thing, an emotional thing.
If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is.
I think every actor wants a certain amount of control. Maybe not control, as such, but just to be part of the process. But it's not necessary, I guess.
The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.
It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.
