Actors really are the scum of the earth. Their behavior makes overpaid rock stars look positively noble.
Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say any lines.
I've always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That's how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.
The right costume determines the character, helps the actor feel who he is, and serves the story.
Bad directors are the ones who want to tell you every move, and think they're a better actor than you.
I think the more you do as an actor, the more facility you have to switch on and off.
Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves.
As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.
There's something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too.
John Goodman is more that just a big guy, he's a wonderful actor.
The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.
Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
I wasn't one of those people who went to see a play and said, 'I want to be an actor.' I fell into it.
Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.
I don't know, as long as I get to evolve and grow as an actor and as a person, that's the stuff I'm after.
If I was just considered a looker and wasn't considered an actor, where would I be in 10 or 20 years from now?
In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.
For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.
I think actors are brave souls that have to use parts of themselves that I'm just not comfortable doing anymore.
I would never assume to tell another actor how to do his job!
