Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.
I wasn't an actor. They they take the externals. Here I was, a kid thrown into Hollywood with a brand-new name, starring in motion pictures.
I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by yourself.
I think when I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist.
I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.
As an actor, you come in contact with so many different people and cultures. It makes you a more accepting person.
Actors, we like our little cups of cappuccino and our personal umbrella-holders. Poker players, they've gotta be a little bit tougher.
The true excitement comes from the actors - that gives you the true drama - and whatever I can do with the camera, that's icing on the cake.
You have to have wonderful actors for material, particularly difficult material that requires complicated performances.
In TV, there's so much compromise, it does start to grate a bit. But if you're a writer or an actor, it really is the place to be.
I have my dream job! As a young person training as an actor, walking on the WB studio lot is a dream in itself.
There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.
I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.
No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional caricature.
I like the idea of up-and-coming actors nowadays being a little different and not necessarily the drama-school stereotype, being a bit more edgy.
I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.
Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.
When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.
I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.
I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.
