Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.
Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.
I think anytime you can do something you haven't seen or done in a film before, it's always a great day as an actor.
What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows.
TV actors are doing great in Bollywood. We have our own market, our own fans, who love to see us on the big screen.
The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring.
I feel like I have just been really, really lucky to meet some of the most successful and great actors alive today.
One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man.
You can't be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.
It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.
Jake Johnson wanted to make clear that he was the great American actor, not just the funny guy on 'New Girl.'
In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and funny voices.
I snootily say I can't take too many dramatic parts, as it's taking work from actors who aren't funny.
I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.
God, I hate interviews with actors pouncing on. Who wants to know about their lives? I don't want to know about Al Pacino's life.
I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.
Shows have asked a lot of actors to take cuts. Shows are going off the air. So okay, life goes on.
The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.
You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.
The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, 'Who won the Oscar last year?'
