It's actually really great to be a student and an actor, because I get to do this job that I love, then just when I think my head might explode, I get to go to school where they don't really care about what magazine cover I'm on.

I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.

I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor.

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

Now that was one thing, but from an actor's point of view, this poor young man, crying from the moment I opened the door to the moment he left. Now if an actor did that they would say he's over-acting.

There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.

Look at someone like Edward Norton. A truly phenomenal actor. He's definitely went to school and trained.

I work primarily for the camera-it's not something I really talk about a lot, but it's part of the way I am as a movie actor. The camera is my girl, as it were.

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.

I don't do stunts and I don't think many actors do. For an actor to say they do their own stunts I don't think is very respectful of the profession of stunt men and women.

Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can.

And, you know, when you are a kid, everybody wants to be an actor. I think that everybody wants to be in show business, frankly.

And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.

I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.

I was an accidental actor. I was never formally trained.