No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.
Saying that it's for her child, she gets herself a loaf of bread.
It is easier to beat two devils into a child, than one devil out.
When you show the moon to a child, it sees only your finger.
I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director.
Animals are the best actors. They never lie, they're always present, and they listen. That's a lot more than a lot of actors can say for themselves.
A lot of directors want to storyboard you, whereas the best way to get a performance out of an actor is a collaborative process where you listen to the actor's input.
There are maybe 100 actors I look up to, but my first two favourite actors were Dustin Hoffman and Jack Nicholson.
Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.
The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor.
All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.
I want to be an actor, and I am being an actor. I'm not ready to run off on a road trip. Yet.
There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.
Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.
AMC has a track record for finding actors who have been working actors but not names yet and casting them.
Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.
People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.
As an actor, I had noticed very vividly that very few directors know how to direct actors because they haven't done it.
It took a long time for me to have any impact in the business because I didn't look like an actor, I didn't sound like an actor.
I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.
I didn't come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don't want to be considered a cool actor - I want to be a great actor.
