I think I probably think about myself as an actor, which is the way most people do. I think I'm good, I don't think I'm great. I think I would hire somebody else to play me in the movie about me.
I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style.
An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor.
I kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor.
Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.
I loved being on the other side of the camera and interacting with the crew. When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It's just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.
I'm not a good actor, I can play myself and a much gayer version of myself. That's my range.
It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.
My favorite actor that I look up to is Joseph Gordon-Levitt. His career is something I look up to, I just want to be that guy. He's always part of projects that have a lot of soul and that's what I want to do as an actor.
I wasn't sure I wanted to be an actor.
I stopped asking a long time ago, "why would you want me to play that?" I'm an actor. That's what I do.
To be a great director, what does it mean exactly? It's not only about a great director, but also about being able to rely on the very special chemistry that goes between them. It not only has to be a great director, but the great director has to make his relationship to you, the actor, very special.
I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films.
I found that with Rooney, her instincts in films was always to underplay and to sort of reduce down what was necessary to bring you in - a sense of economy, a sense of scale, which just seemed to understand the medium so well. When you see that in a younger actor, I always think it speaks to incredible knowledge. I can't exactly figure out where that comes from, that confidence to know how to be quiet.
I'm not a betting man, and even if I was, I certainly wouldn't bet on this! I would not bet on the Best Actor.
As an actor you want to explore something you haven't done.
Other actors like to rehearse on film-they like 30 or 40 takes. When you get an actor like that, it becomes difficult for me because I'm ready to quit after number two.
My journey has been that of a character actor.
As an audience member and as an actor I much prefer to find ambiguity.
Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.