For actors, you've gotta sometimes fill in your backstory.
When I go to a movie, I'm always thrilled if I've seen an actor do something and I didn't realize until the end of the movie that that was that person. I love that.
I feel like a lot of the young actors that are just coming up are really good. I think directors are directing better.
I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.
I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.
I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.
What's a celebrity anyway? Paris Hilton's a celebrity. I'm just a working actor.
You hear this said about actors sometimes, that they're fearless, but she [ Maggie Gyllenhaal] really is.
I'm a huge fan of John Malkovich and Josh Brolin, and Michael Shannon has got to be one of my favorite actors.
I think actors always like to think they don't bring the character home, and then their family all laugh and tell you otherwise.
It is so rare as an actor to be allowed the chance to revisit a role and to go back to a character that you already built, and lived inside, and understood. To take it further to another stage is a huge privilege.
I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience.
At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore.
I love performing in a good straight play as well and I'm a crossover actor, I crossover from plays to musicals, musicals to plays. This is very difficult for performers.
Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor.
The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors.
In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in a different way.
Soaps are a great springboard for any actor but if you want to be taken seriously, you have to be careful.
Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.
Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.