Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.
Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.
I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.
And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have hung in too, but began to blame everything on race.
My favorite actor is Sir Ben Kingsley - nobody is as good as him, in my opinion. I think he's so good as an artist.
I never thought about being the highest paid. I just wanted to be someone that people cared about watching, and I feel I'm a good actor.
I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.
Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.
This particular film highlights Ben and Owen's strengths which is that they are great comedic actors with tremendous chemistry and they do a really good job.
But I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century.
I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century.
Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong.
I worked with Roger Moore on three episodes of 'The Saint.' He is a lovely man, a good director, and was my favourite actor to work with.
One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.
One good thing about TV Land is you're always surrounded by people who know what they're doing, in terms of your fellow actors.
One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man.
You can't be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.
It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.
Jake Johnson wanted to make clear that he was the great American actor, not just the funny guy on 'New Girl.'
