Actor Quotes

I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

Evil changes everybody!

But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.

At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.

And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true.

And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.

All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.

I've never tried to be something I'm not.

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.

The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.

Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.

People have this belief that actors are able to go out there and say, 'Oh I choose this job,' but most of the time we're just taking the job we can get. We don't just get offered thousands of jobs; we might earn one job a year and that's the one we'll take because we've got to pay the rent.

Not every job is a good job.

I'm a giant softy, for sure, but I honestly think these days it's probably considered more masculine to be emotionally connected.

I work out two, two and a half hours a day.

I don't think Americans look bad in spandex.

I didn't see a lot of comic books growing up.

At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.

I try to be the best man I can for the day.

I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it.