I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good.
There's so many good comic actors that you just take the best of and try and run with it yourself. Try and bring a little bit of yourself to it, too.
Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.
Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.
Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
I don't want to be known as someone who is deliberately trying to do things that are not commercial! That is not a good reputation to have when you're trying to be a working actor.
Working on a soap opera is such good training for the novice actor. No rehearsal, 120 pages of dialogue per week, and one take to get the scene right. No room for error.
Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.
I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.
It's my job as a supporting actor - which I usually am - to support the film: to make 1, 2, or 3 on the call sheet look good.
And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have hung in too, but began to blame everything on race.
I never thought about being the highest paid. I just wanted to be someone that people cared about watching, and I feel I'm a good actor.
I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.
Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.
But I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century.
I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century.
Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong.
One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.
One good thing about TV Land is you're always surrounded by people who know what they're doing, in terms of your fellow actors.
No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.
