I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.
Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.
I've never thought that what I do as an actor does anything for anybody, other than making them laugh once in a while.
In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk.
My undergraduate studies at Brown and graduate degrees from Harvard prepared me for a multifaceted career as an actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist.
I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there.
I believe your thoughts are your thoughts, but are you a human being in front of the camera, or an actor? They are two different things.
I think it's very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because they are 'actors'.
So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people.
I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.
The idea for actors is to make a living telling stories, so if you can do that, then you're way ahead of the game.
The room is full of such talent. It's a beautiful thing about the SAG Awards. It's the most rewarding room to be in as an actor.
I think the choice of actors that we have is a little more varied and rich here in New York than in L.A.
I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.
I've been a working actor for many years, but it's not always been successful for me. I certainly struggled in the past.
I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors.
I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.
One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.
If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to do that.
An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.
Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.
