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If people perceive you as a good actor then they'll wish for you to be a good actor and they'll root for you when they watch you, but if you come out and you're going to clubs every night people don't root for you anymore.

When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way.

The actor's role in the community is quite unlike anyone else's. Businessmen, for example, don't take their clothes off or cry in front of strangers in the course of their work. Actors do.

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

I don't really view myself as an actor.

It's a little daunting coming on to work with actors that you respect so much.

The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out.

Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor.

There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.

One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.