I'm not an instinctive actor.
Acting is a craft, and you need to study to be an actor.
Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing.
I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.
There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.
Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world.
I am a really writer-oriented actor.
Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.
I might like to be an actor, but there are loads of other things I'm interested in as well, like music and writing and sports. I want to keep my options open.
I used to love fast food because I had no money, and I was a struggling actor.
My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character.
Europeans have a different take [on nudity] than American actors do. They're not quite as hung up.
God writes a lot of comedy. . . the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
I have to say as an actor I have been inspired by so many British actors throughout the years.
I'm too grateful that I continue to grow as an actor. I hope I get better. I feel like I am. But it's a roll of the dice every time you make a movie. Nobody knows.
You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.
I much prefer the company of the crew, the sort of 'blue-collar working person. ' I much more have that sensibility than what the public perceives as what a typical actor would have.
It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.
I did a short film called 'Disco' and won an award for Best Supporting Actor at an indie film festival, and that was nice. Hopefully there's lots more to come.
The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.
