As an actor, you're putting yourself out there when you perform. You're bound to experience feelings of vulnerability because of this.
I didn't know I wanted to be actor when I was four. I did it at the beginning because my brother did it before me and it was a hobby. I didn't mind doing it. But then it got more serious.
When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.
If I want to keep working as an actor, I'm going to become a comedian who does fart jokes.
In my career, I've had kind of a strange trajectory as an actor. I started out doing movies and theater and stuff, but then I had a terrible problem with stage fright as an actor on stage, and I quit stage acting for a long, long time.
Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power.
You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor.
I can't tell my self that I'm a serious actor. But I'm serious person.
No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty greedy.
As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.
You have to trust your instincts. There is a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it.
I must confess I don't own Harry Potter DVDs. My parents do. They have them all. And they like watching them. They've got all their home videos done in HD quality! They love it. But I struggle very much. I'm very self-conscious as an actor, anyway. I don't like watching my own performances, even in this recent one.
There are two things that really move me: music and acting. And I'm not talking about my music or watching myself as an actor, but listening to other people's music and watching other actors. There are so many different songs that have moved me. It all depends upon the mood that I'm in at that moment.
A brick layer, lays bricks. . . I'm an Actor, that's what I do.
I'm going to be a better actor, or I'm going to try to be a better actor. I'm going to try to be a better musician. I'm going to be an artist instead of just this one thing.
I realized that I was a really, really terrible actor. I was like, "I'd better be myself. "
As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.
I've always felt it's the directors purview to say what; it's the actor's purview to say how. It's not good for an actor to have the big picture in mind - it bollocks you up. An actor's purview is the tiny little. . . We measure our performance in seconds.
My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move.
And I was very shy as a kid; if you sang me 'Happy Birthday,' I would cry. Quite shy. So the idea of being an actor, much less a model, was just out of this world.