We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.
As you know, Hollywood loves to pigeonhole all the actors and actresses, and suddenly I got 're-pigeonholed' as an action actor.
People think that theater actors are too big for the camera. It's like, 'No, we're actors and we adjust for our audience.'
I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it and they want to change it and they want to add stuff. I'm always amazed and so impressed by actors who do that.
I'm a journeyman actor. My experience as a journeyman actor is that you have to go where the work is. I've never been the lead; I've never been in that position.
Experience tells us that whereas that degree of recognition can happen for one or two actors, for the vast majority it doesn't, so what matters is to try and be a better actor.
I don't think an actor's job is to be recognized. I think an actor's job is to facilitate the writing in a way that changes the way people think. No other business does that.
If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks that's pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song, even if they've been doing it for 40 years, that's bad news.
People forget actors can adapt and change their appearance. In this industry, people sometimes cast to type, or as close to type as possible, but actors are a lot more versatile than you think!
Josh Brolin is an actor that I really, really like; he's fantastic. I worked with him once; he's a really great actor.
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.
