Actor Quotes

Next? Growing up to be Clint Eastwood, I hope.

You've got to have steel in you somewhere.

You can't always go by the book, even in comedy.

You can time a part perfectly and play it badly. And some people have very individual offbeat timing, which is their own. It works simply because they are who they are.

People ask, how do you cope, and all I can say is that you do.

No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants.

I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society.

I think that can happen, that two people can love each other and not be able to get on at all.

I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you.

I have always tried to work according to what affects me, to a script that I like because it touches me in some way, without deliberately pursuing a commercial career or a particular image.

I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people.

An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor.

Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know why it does.

If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people.

If I'm enjoying something, I'd like to be able to just have it all. Frankly, that's the way I'm approaching my career now. I'm a total workaholic.

I'm in a little bit of a different situation, because working in the business that I do and living in the city that I live in, I haven't had a problem with people who are gay. Since I was 10 I've been working alongside them, and some of my best friends are gay.

I'd worked so hard that by the time I was 20, I wanted to play hard. And I did that really well.

I would rather do three or four small parts every year as opposed to some of the lower-hanging fruit that might get my name above the title.

I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth.

I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.

I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff.

I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality.

I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.

I only wanted to get married once, so when I felt I was ready to handle it, I looked at my relationships and noticed that boyfriends get tired of girlfriends, and vice versa, but you never get tired of your friends.

I never looked at fan mail, for some reason. My mother and grandmother handled my mail - although it's not like I was ever in the stratosphere of Kirk Cameron or Scott Baio.

I just love doing sitcoms. I'd be in them till I was gray if they'd have me.

I have to warn you: I bet horses like a girl.

I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.

I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.

I don't have anything to fix! I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't eat carbs. My life is just great now. Normal. Vanilla.