Actor Quotes

I find that people... very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad it has more to do with guilt.

You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don't think they printed too many.

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive. I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive.

This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors.

That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions.

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.

In the West, audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors. But I must do my job perfectly, and I love what I do.

An actor is only merchandise.

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors.

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to other people.

People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that.

Nobody wants to hear Metallica at lunchtime.

My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough.' That became my mantra.

Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters.

It's more interesting isn't it, if I've got a hedonistic dark side?

If there's friends around, I'll cook. Or if I have a girlfriend. But on my own I kind of fell out of the habit of it, and it's a shame really because I know it's good for me. It's something quite therapeutic.

I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies.

I'm fairly competitive.

I'm always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don't get too comfortable.

I take my work seriously but I can't take myself too seriously. I'm in such a crazy privileged position.

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles with my dad. We went through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Italy... and then I did Spain and France by myself.

I guess in the independent market, I'd be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don't think my name is that well-known, I don't have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet.

I don't think peroxide-blond hair is a beneficial look for me.

I don't know what's going to happen. I'm flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months' time. I just want to keep working. I can't stop!

I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy.