I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived.
Any actor will tell you there's more of a schedule to doing a television show. That's why you'll notice a lot of big movie actors are doing television, and they'll tell you, it's because of the schedule
I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.
I can tell when an actor's forcing tears, and it's tricky because you then have to film it and edit in a certain way to skirt around the issue.
I really feel that if I did another [Narnia] film I'd just be repeating myself and I don't really want to do that as an actor.
Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.
To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there.
Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun.
This word gets overused in describing actors but I think it applies to Mike [Tyson] in this case - he was totally fearless. He jumped in and played with us comedically and improvised a lot. A lot of jokes in those scenes with him are from him improvising.
Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors.
It is only when an actor feels that his inner and outer life on the stage is flowing naturally and normally, in the circumstances that surround him, that the deeper sources of his subconscious gently open, and from them come feelings we cannot always analyse.
I was an actor. . . or, at least, I was trying to be an actor.
I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
I just consider myself a committed actor. If a movie is a success, that's great; I'm happy for that. But I've learned just to concentrate on my job and do the best that I can.
Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate.
Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old.
I'm a stage actor. That is what I do.
The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.
I do believe all actors are smart.