If you're not concerned about maintaining an image, you can pursue roads that another actor might not take.
Working in film tends to isolate actors - it's your close-up; it's all about you.
I want to be an actor, I am just not very comfortable talking about myself.
A lot of actors think that what we do is so important, like we're saving people's lives or something.
I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.
As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.
My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
As an actress - and as an actor, too, but it's worse for actresses - you constantly get picked apart for how you look.
The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.
The thing about Canada is, you're not really considered a Canadian actor unless you do something with the CBC.
I think if you're the son or daughter of successful actors and actresses, it's a double pressure. More is expected of you.
A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.
An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
No I don't really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit.
I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character.
I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.
There are certain storylines I shouldn't have done, there are certain actors I shouldn't have cast - guest stars, I mean.
Of course, people told me, 'Mikey, you will never be an actor. You don't have the look. You're ugly.'
Directors have so much else to do besides tell actors what to do. There are so many issues and problems.
Directing talent is very nebulous. You know, it's not in front of you like an actor's performance.
Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.
