I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.
And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.
I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff where they can really lose control.
When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.
Indeed, the actor's lot is a much harder one than that of the director's, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to play the eight shows a week.
I think all Latino actors want to be storytellers first. I want to be an actor first, and then I want to be Latina.
A lot of actors are frustrated because they want to do things that are different and test themselves. Character actors are always looking for something the opposite of what they did.
I don't want to be just considered a breakout comedic supporting actor. I want to be a breakout actor in anything that's a lead.
An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a computer.
My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but I'm much better there than I am on screen.
I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.
I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter.
You always like to learn from people as a young actor. I think every young actor says that, but it's true.
I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
If you're a lead actor, people are just waiting to say 'you're too old' or 'you're too unhip.' If you're a supporting actor, you can just work forever.
What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title—whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or 'anything actor,' Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from. Equality com...
I may not be a trained actor, but I've paid my dues. And I mean that literally. I am a fully dues-paid member of SAG/AFTRA. As a political figure, I've been called a 'card carrying' member of numerous groups that I'm not a member of - and now I'm bei...
You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
There is nobody as hopelessly vulgar as a British aristocrat...
We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses.
I think that British girls have a very eclectic and unique style.
