I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.
Thankfully I'm a better actor than football player, or at least I hope so.
I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work.
People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.
I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.
I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.
I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.
It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.
Actors don't need a lot of talk beyond the first few sentences. They may say they don't draw on their own life, but all actors do.
The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.
I always love watching those natural actors like Bill Cosby, Raven-Symone and Shia LaBeouf - just effortless actors.
As actors, sometimes we want our character to go somewhere different than it goes, but that's being an actor.
Doing Shakespeare certainly makes you a better actor.
You can either be a movie star or an actor. I'm an actor.
I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there's some redundancy in that.
Actors are always looking for the eyes of the other actors because you need help and you need connection.
Actors know how to talk to other actors in a way that sometimes other directors just don't.
Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance.
It's difficult to judge other actors, because as an actor you're looking at different things than what an audience is looking at.
I always wanted to be an actor, but my top three favorite actors of all time are Al Pacino, James Dean and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work.
