The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.
I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.
Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.
So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator.
Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.
Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us.
I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.
I've interviewed the president in the White House. I'd interviewed major newsmakers and Hollywood actors.
I felt unworthy to play Jesus. I just accepted the responsibility and said, 'What actor wouldn't want to play this role?'
The first thing I wanted to be was an actor, even before I wanted to be a singer, before I discovered I could sing.
Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.
I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.
Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character.
There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.
Spielberg gave us three takes before saying anything to us. Since then, I do that, three takes, to let the actors find their rhythm.
The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never going to do as a director.
Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.
A strange thing happens to me that I'm sure happens to a lot of actors when the camera starts rolling. I'm not 'me' any more.
As an actor, you have to get used to being told no, develop a thick skin, and just keep persevering.
