Actors are such an insecure breed.
I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.
When I got into the film world, I got sucked into the secular aspect of the entertainment field and I really drifted away from my faith. Its amazing. . . as successful as I was as an actor, and the money and the fame, there was still something missing.
I'm an actor that likes to go to work. I like going to work every day. I'm a worker by nature. I'm not someone who does one film a year and feels satisfied by that.
We're all pretty proud of it, and we're also standing around, scratching our heads and going, "Wow, this is really good. " With the caliber of actors that we have, you really can't got wrong. Not only is it fun, but it's good. It's been really, really great, in that aspect. I totally get what they're doing.
Typically, I like to talk and meet with actors face to face well before we start shooting.
The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.
There's part of me that's grateful for the delusion, because it takes a very hard shell to get started as an actor, and I don't have a very hard shell.
The way I see the job, my definition of it, is to create characters to the best of your ability and then fit into what's trying to be accomplished in the general framework of the film. I think that's whether you're doing this- even if you're doing musical theater. That's what I think an actors job is. I don't know. I like to think what an actors job is is to create characters.
I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.
I realized that being an actor was something I never owned up to, in a weird way. I would be a hostess or a waitress or a house restorer before I would consider myself an actor, because I never thought I was good enough.
I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.
I don't call myself an actor, I call myself an entertainer, because I don't just do one thing.
Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate.
God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was.
The more it happens, the easier it is for others, although I do understand why some actors choose not to come out. I have several famous friends who are still in the closet.
An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor.
You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.
Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It's not for the acting, that's for sure.
As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money.
