I do very little on-camera acting, so within a phrase as a voice actor you have to know how to convey when someone is 95 years old or 19 years old. . . When I was the lead singer of the California Raisins commercials there was a traditional actor there as well and he would do all these body movements without saying anything because he was "acting. " And the only acting the microphone picked up on was silence.
Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.
That's really just the worst part of life really, you get bracketed somewhere and the next thing you know people are saying, 'No. No. That's not the type. Get me so and so. ' I'm not a type. I'm an actor.
Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it's almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync.
I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.
I don't put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and I want to be challenged by the roles I take.
I felt like I had to prove myself, but I feel that you have to do that anyway, as an actor. You're there to do a job, and that's your primary concern.
But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.
My definition of a character actor is - they never get the girl.
As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.
I'm not much of an actor, I'm realizing.
I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.
As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.
I want to be remembered as a great actor - and a shining example of humanity.
Regardless of how dark and heavy the character is the actor has to approach it with that frame of mind.
An actor alone is a bit naked. Like when you do something in front of your mirror, you're usually really bad, because you're looking at yourself.