My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.
Nobody wants to hear an actor complain about too much work - especially other actors.
I think it's my job as a young actor to watch adult actors and take tips on the way they work.
I had a family that supported me.
Ciss says, 'People have less emotions than actors think they have. For much of the time we hide our emotions, we haven't time for emotions. Our brains work so much faster than our emotions.
As an actor, I don't really think you find yourself. I mean, once you find yourself, I think it becomes boring and you become set in your ways. I think, as an actor I think it's not a bad thing but more of a gift. It's something you're always doing a...
The thing about many celebrities - not all - is that they're fantastic actors. If we've created a really juicy role, it just feels like a fantastic actor should be playing the part. If it's a long enough part, we consider anyone. If it's a single epi...
I decided I would open this little actors' workshop I always told actors to look for. That gave me something to do on Wednesday nights, and after about a year of that, I realized that some of the things I was saying to actors probably had broader app...
When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor. I didn't know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get away with going to college to study film more easily than I could with saying, 'I want to be a...
I've heard New York actors say Chicago actors intimidate them because apparently we're the real nitty-gritty actors who're in a town where being onstage doesn't necessarily get you anything except your craft.
What I say about actors is you always want to find an actor you can play ball with. You throw the ball at them and you want them to throw it back. Your ball playing is a lot better when you play with good ballplayers, like any sport. Every actor I kn...
I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the actors. When people ask me what I do, I don't really say that I'm an actor, because actors often wait for someone to give them roles.
My dad's supportive of all my endeavors.
My mother was always supportive.
The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors.
With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.
The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.
Maybe I'm secretly in my soul a method actor.
There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year.
I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.
I would rather be called a character actor than a star.
