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A lot of actors say that theater's the thing for them. And that's great, and I'm not one to speak with any authority about it because of not having done it properly. For me, movies are what I love.

Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is.

There is something pleasurable for an actor to produce something and not be in it.

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who watch what we do.

Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting.

The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, and it's disregarding what we do. Our job is to do our job.

I think actors get too comfortable. I like being uncomfortable as an actor because it keeps you alive. I don't know, I think it's important.