A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.
This battle for global talent is so important.
Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
Talent is nothing without persistence.
Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.
I'm not a method actor; I hope you know that!
My goal has been to be a great character actor.
To be a good actor you have to feel life and observe life.
I was born a character actor.
I consider myself a character actor.
Peter Mullan is the least method actor around.
I don't know one actor that became an actor for healthy reasons.
Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.
It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.
Actors, I think, are all the same. Both Korean actors and American actors are all very sensitive people, and they are all curious to know what the director thinks of them and how they are evaluated, and they try to satisfy the director. And they like...
There are etiquette things that actors, new actors, need to know about. Because it only takes one mess-up on a set to get fired. Not being where you're supposed to be or saying something to the wrong person that you're not supposed to say, and those ...
I'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that Christopher Guest, Phil Hartman, Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness are comedic actors. And Dan Aykroyd, too. Those are my heroes.
The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completely change from role to role. I love Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness and Gary Oldman. They tend to be British, I guess. People who really disappear and tra...
My heroes are Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman. Those are the two actors that both do comedies and dramas, seamlessly. Also John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman. They're all just great actors, neither comedic nor dramatic. They're just great actor...
