I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type.
I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties.
As an actor, I'll take any job.
I think Chicago people are very special people, and the Midwest's confluence of East Coast-meets-Midwest sensibilities had to, on a formative level, inform me as an artist and an actor. In that sense, it had to have helped me.
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
There's so much I want to do as an actor. I feel like there's so much more that I want to achieve and that I can achieve.
I'm an actor and a playwright, and I don't earn much.
I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.
'The New York Times' thing. . . I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.
My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.
Maybe this is my morality coming in again but it was important to me that the actor [ in Notes On A Scandal] was above the age of consent. Although really, what's the difference between 15 and 16? It's the law, yeah, but he's very mature.
I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.
The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
The life of an actor can be very enviable.
Danny DeVito knows about the business from many different perspectives, because he is a producer and director as well as an actor. At one point we were on the set late at night and he said: 'come here I want to brush your hair'. I said 'ok'. He sat there brushing my hair and told me that his job before becoming an actor was as a hair stylist in Manhattan. I said "what?" But it is true.
Words are words, but the way an actor says them, the way it's framed, puts you either in the world that looks a lot like ours or one that doesn't seem a lot like ours, one that can be farcical or one that can't.
I was in drama, wanted to be an actor.
I weren't an actor, I'd be a wildlife biologist or forest ranger.
An actor is like an instrument, tune them, play them the right way.
I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor.