quote: It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.
quote: Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.
quote: If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.
quote: I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy.
quote: You should never ask actors about politics.
quote: I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts in exactly the same way.
quote: One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors, and the characters start to come to life because you start to collaborate.
quote: I wouldn't date an actress. There's only room for one actor in my life and I'm it. Too difficult. On the one hand, they understand the job. But on the other hand, it's very competitive within the relationship. Two actors, say one becomes a mega-star and the other doesn't.
quote: This acting's serious! And I really respect those actors. It's a tough business to be able to be something you're not and be natural and convince people on camera.
quote: The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
quote: The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.
quote: Nowadays you really have to pump out that blockbuster in order to have the luxury of getting a body of work, and that's sad because the work suffers. Today everything is based on money. The older actors, they inspire me.
quote: You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.
quote: 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.
quote: You can't trust actors.
quote: When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me.
quote: Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe place.
quote: I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.
quote: I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'
quote: The whole world is a theater. And the people in it are actors. And the special services is the audience.
quote: Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
quote: Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.
quote: You need three things in the theater - the play, the actors and the audience, - and each must give something
quote: Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.
quote: The best actors do not let the wheels show.