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I wasn't really that good at being a musician. And then I tried being a standup. I was an actor. I was a photographer. I tried everything. Nothing was particularly working for me, but then, as a musician, I wrote jokes for comics. And they started to buy my jokes, and that's where I thought maybe that might work.Collection: Actors
When I was a waiter I was fired twice from the same restaurant. I guess I was that good of an actor but that bad of a waiter.Collection: Actors
Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster.Collection: Actors
I want to direct and work with the youngins and the fabulous actors of today.Collection: Actors
Actors don't necessarily want to be famous or rich or anything else. It's a very bad gamble if that's what you're after.Collection: Actors
Method actors are like hams.Collection: Actors
An actor should refine public taste.Collection: Actors
I just wanted to be an actor. It's better to be well-rounded.Collection: Actors
I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.Collection: Actors
I realized that I was a really, really terrible actor. I was like, "I'd better be myself."Collection: Actors
I have to remember that I didn't have to become an actor. I didn't have to put myself in this position. If I'd wanted to have autonomy - if that was what I was after - then I could have chosen another profession.Collection: Actors
I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.Collection: Actors
The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.Collection: Actors
When I'm working, it's those actors (you know who you are) who sit around moaning that their trailer isn't big enough, or how bad their facilities are. I can't be doing with any of that, I just like to get on with it.Collection: Actors
Actors cannot work against each other. It's totally impossible.Collection: Actors
I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.Collection: Actors
I'm always excited to work with actors.Collection: Actors
Eventually, if something pops up, that's cool, but I still wanna continue the process of learning how to be a good actor.Collection: Actors
The better the actor, usually the safer you feel working with.Collection: Actors
It seems to me that I never grow unless I'm actually working with other actors who have shed whatever shell it is that keeps them insulated from each other.Collection: Actors
When you're an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we don't get a chance to get to it. Myself, I really want to get into it. I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera.Collection: Actors
I've never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn't know how really great he is.Collection: Actors
I love working with actors. I grew up with a lot of actors. All my friends are actors. I love that process.Collection: Actors
Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.Collection: Actors
I don't want to be quoted as 'Tom Hiddleston, psychologist says...' But there is a psychological aspect to being an actor. We are particular students of human nature - not every actor is, of course, but that's what fascinates me about being an actor.Collection: Actors
As an actor, it's much, much easier to be really nasty to someone that you really like.Collection: Actors
Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred HitchcockCollection: Actors
Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor.Collection: Actors
For some reason, I seem to work well with actors. I love working with them.Collection: Actors
I became an actor because I didn't know what else to do. Academically, I wasn't good.Collection: Actors
You have to be pretty tough to be an actor, and you have to be pretty certain what you want. You can't waffle through this business.Collection: Actors
I'm always curious about how actors cry on film.Collection: Actors
If you're a serious actor, it's when you know you're going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.Collection: Actors
Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor.Collection: Actors
The pleasure of working with somebody who's an actor is they don't waste time with stuff that doesn't matter.Collection: Actors
It's rough to feel creatively satisfied, as an actor, for the most part, because you don't initiate your own work.Collection: Actors
As Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor. My sister [Maggie Gyllenhaal] came up to me recently after she saw this movie, Southpaw, the movie I did, and she thought there was this exploration of that type of presentation, and a bit of representation as well, if I could be totally honest, where she was deeply moved.Collection: Actors
That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go."Collection: Actors
All actors are terrified - they just learn how to control it.Collection: Actors
A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's.Collection: Actors
You have to love, without judgment, every actor that you're working with to make beauty.Collection: Actors
I'm good with dialect. Some actors do it immediately; other actors never quite get it. It's something I've always really enjoyed and something I've always been pretty fast with.Collection: Actors
I just don't feel like part of the fraternity of actors. I do geek out. All the time.Collection: Actors
I'm an actor, I'm always looking for work. I was born to do that.Collection: Actors
Using non-actors has its own rules and really requires that you allow them to do their own thing.Collection: Actors
I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.Collection: Actors
More than an actor, I am a performer. I'm a great believerCollection: Actors
It's better to find a stunt person who can act. It's easier to do that than to find an actor who can do a stunt.Collection: Actors
As an actor, you learn, every time you work.Collection: Actors