It was like there's got to be some way to stay working and stay productive in Los Angeles. TV is that kind of thing for an actor. Unless you get stuck in one of these shows where you have to go to Vancouver.

It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance.

There's a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you're an actor you're somehow not a member of the crew. You're somehow more special. I hate that.

Maybe that's my lot in life as an actor, to be the guy who gets crapped on everywhere he goes. Oh God.

Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.

I think if you work as an actress and are supposed as a character to be in love with some actor, then to some extent you do have to be in love with him.

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.

I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.

I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.

I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.