Actor Quotes

Actually, I look the same in real life as I do in the movies.

Now I do bowling, golf, and tennis. I want to be a good bowler.

I am classified as an idol in Hong Kong and in Asia.

Don't wait. If it's not right, move on.

One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're having a hard time.

I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.

I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.

I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.

You take jobs so much of the time when you don't need to necessarily work for a living, but it becomes important who you are going to work with.

When actors get pigeonholed, that's their own doing to a large degree. Because if you do something that people like, obviously they're going to ask you to do it again. It's up to you to say no. If you're that insecure about working, you'll probably do what you're known to do.

Thinking fascinates me, and I probably spend too much time in my mind. My wife says that my perfect world is to be in the Suburban driving, with her next to me and the boys in the back seat and complete silence for two thousand miles.

The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

I'd like to be doing quality acting in a quality role and making as many people as possible happy.

I love working with Gary Sinise.

I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.

I have 800 books of just Samuel Beckett's work, tons of his correspondence, personal letters that he wrote. I have copies of plays he used when he directed, so all of his handwritten notes are in the corners of the page.

I don't do a lot of guest shots on television.

I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.

I began my career in Los Angeles and started working fairly quickly.

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way.

It's a living, breathing thing, acting.

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.

I'm hardly a saint.

I'd always felt a man should marry later in life.

I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.

I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me.

I just feel that no matter what comes in a career - and mine has been all over the map - you must stay at the table, pick up the cards you're dealt and play them.