I don't perform well in private. Socially, I mean. And I didn't as a child. Actors aren't necessarily outgoing, are they?
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.
Child actors going on to become adult actors never really works, apart from a few. Jodie Foster was the exception.
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 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.
It's easier to see in someone else, another actor, how they kind of disappear and then this other persona appears. A great actor is a thing of mystery.
I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.
My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.
I've been blessed. Starting with Steppenwolf Theater and onward, learning from wonderful actors and getting to play with wonderful actors.
A pilot is like the most extensive dress rehearsal you can ever imagine, because the writers are learning about the actors, the actors are learning about the characters.
There are so many talented young actors in the industry. I'm just happy to have a job!
I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.
I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
I'm not a wealthy person because I was never a star. I was a working actor and a supporting actor.
It's not like every actor needs to train, but an actor will either develop their process through training or through working.
Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That's all an actor is. He's like a serious Bruce Forsyth.
