When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.
As an actor there are no drawbacks.
The two things an actor dreads most are children and dogs.
I first started as an actor, but there was no money in it, which is why I drifted into comedy.
I certainly have never been an actor who can play the Everyman guy - or, I don't tend to get those parts. I've tended to play eccentrics. I've played a lot of villains, of course.
A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.
After leaving school, I worked as an electrician before becoming an actor.
I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are something that an average actor would do.
When I got recognized as a writer, when I got the Emmy, I was more excited than the Emmys I had gotten as an actor.
A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.
Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.
No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.
The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'.
The life of an actor can be very enviable.
I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.
Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.
When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.
I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.
I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do.
I think the more you do as an actor, the more facility you have to switch on and off.
