I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares - like a comedian who laughs at his own jokes.
I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me, and he pulled out, so I got the role.
I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it.
I'll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working.
I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.
I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.
I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.
Christina Ricci is amazing, the most professional actor I think I've ever met. You can be chatting with her and when they call action, she's right there.
Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor.
Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor.
Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.
Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.
As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.