I was an actor for over a year before I ever saw a play.
I actually don't have a problem with shooting and then just walking away and forgetting about it. I'm not really like a Method actor or an old soul. It doesn't stay with me.
The room is full of such talent. It's a beautiful thing about the SAG Awards. It's the most rewarding room to be in as an actor.
I'm not an actor who can constantly pick and choose, I try to get the best of what's there.
Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.
Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?
Crazy is so hard to play, there's nothing you can really tell an actor.
For me, honestly, I'm an actor. There's one thing I know how to do - act. And that's all I know how to do. Through our work, [actors] can trigger awareness.
I really admire actors who have time, because time is really the greatest luxury for an actor to live with a character, to develop a walk and a talk, or to listen to tape if you're playing a real character. But without time you're really just forced to make quick choices and move on and hope that the spaghetti sticks against the wall.
In the Twenties, it wasn't a remarkable thing for a singer to be an actor, or even to be involved in politics. If this is our roots, how can you blame the branches for following the course of the roots.
To me, Fight Club was a comedy. When [David] Fincher sent me the book and I read it, the first thing I asked him was, "This is a comedy, right?" he said, "Yeah, that's the whole point," and I said, "Okay, I'm in. " I certainly wasn't imagining myself as a dramatic actor when I was running around in my underwear in that film.
There's a lot of actors out there or people who want to be actors. It's unique to find somebody that, you know, needs to be an actor.
I was obsessed with Jim Carrey growing up. It's why I wanted to become an actor.
The happiest I ever been was when I was a struggling actor. I've had big houses and small houses. I always had work available for most of my career. When I actually had to find jobs to make money, that's when I was happy.
I do think I'm a character actor.
As an actor, the only thing we can do is play the truth at that moment. Because at any point in time if you play the future, or you play that you know something that the audience does not know, it kills the illusion of reality.
It's easy to get caught up in a moment and think, 'Oh, I've been offered some giant studio film or a superhero franchise or some actor wants to meet with me about a project they want to do. ' And it's easy to get caught up in a moment because it's flattering. But you can't do a movie because it's flattering.
All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.
I want to be remembered as a great actor - and a shining example of humanity.
I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act.