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I want to be a good actor more than anything - someone you can respect.

You have to have an ego to be an actor, but you need an ego just to get through life! Unless you want to sit on a corner and suck your thumb, it takes a healthy ego to get up in the morning and say, 'I deserve to be here.'

I am arrogant enough to know that I am a good actor and people will like me for my work.

I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.

It's something that I think I'm going to have to fight against for most of my career, for people to take me seriously as an actor as opposed to a good-looking guy. It's not what I want to be known as.

When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous.

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

My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.