One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
I've always been someone who feels better, if I see what I'm going through in a movie.
I like actors who like to change and transform to other things.
It's what actors call a big, juicy part, when you're a leading man. I don't get a lot of those. I get a lot of supporting things.
I was very familiar with both actors, as well as Christina Hendricks and Bill Sage, Jimmi Simpson, Polly McIntosh, but the other main actors were new to me. And they were all terrific. Just amazing. Actually, Lowell Northrop optioned Savage Season from me, first book in the series, and I wrote a screenplay.
It's nice to bring the changes with everything you do. As an actor, that's what you want to do, all the time.
In the scenes of moral life the soul is at once actor and spectator.
To my mind, the actor has this great responsability of playing another human being… it’s like taking on another person’s life and you have to do it as sincerely and honestly as you can.
I love working, I'd be dead if I hadn't found myself as an actor I didn't have to be successful.
Actors don't necessarily want to be famous or rich or anything else. It's a very bad gamble if that's what you're after.
It's not like suddenly, when you become a working actor all your friends are in the same situation. I have friends who are still handing out flyers for their one-woman show and trying to make ends meet.
As an actor - like an artist - you have to ask, "Why do I choose a certain moment to play something a certain way?" It's organic to who we are.
When you're studying drama, when you're a young actor, there are simple rules about acting. "Why am I here? What prevents me from leaving? What am I trying to get? How do I hide something?" So when you're making a film like Abel's movie, you want to be thinking about those things all the time. And you wanna be armed with those things, and you hope the other actors you're working with have the same understanding of drama and scene and acting. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
Most actors on most days don't think they're worthy.
Nothing else is as fulfilling as playing a part in which you are able to have a significant say in the creative process all the way through. How many actors get to do that? It's extremely rare.
It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor.
I always wanted to do a Hollywood story. The thing about actors, though, is that they go through a streak of roles. The question is, what's in between?
I never enjoyed working in a film.
The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true.
My dad had been an actor. . . not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?