Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them,...
A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.
No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.
I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring something to it and make it really special. I can't.
There is a bit of a 'once a soap actor always a soap actor' thing, but I do think people still recognise talent. If you're good at something, then people have no choice but to accept it.
And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.
I know in Britain with 'Doctor Who' all the classic actors, and the people who you'd really want to, work on the show. I like that the fact that 'Torchwood' has actors that want to be involved from the stage. It has raised our game, and I'm just happ...
Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them ...
There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.
I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open.
Getting bad reviews or doing something that's not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that I've earned my stripes a bit.
When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous.
I'm getting to the point where they see me as a good actor, rather than just a good guy who can act.
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
I try to be a good, diligent actor.
There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and just decide that they want to be actors. There's nothing wrong with an untrained actor; they have to get their training somehow, they have to learn.
'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
Thing is, I'm a funny actor, but I'm not good at being funny. I'm going to ramble for a second: I'm an actor who can make things funny in the moment, like in stakes or in circumstances or out of character.
My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all - that is not as important to me.
Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too.
