My advice to actors? To successful actors, it's, 'sock it away,' and unsuccessful actors, it's just, 'Just keep at it. Don't do it unless you have to do it, and if you have to do it, keep - you've got to keep your instrument in shape.' You just got t...
Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father...
There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors; they're very much both.
We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor.
If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
Billy Campbell who is... I... truly one of the most talented actors today.
Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.
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.
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.