An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
An actor is like a piece of clay: you just keep moulding me. Even people who work with you every day want to put you in a little box.
There is something pleasurable for an actor to produce something and not be in it.
An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.
An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.
Inevitably, every part an actor plays contains some of himself.
When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voice without an actor. That's my reason for acting: to get that character as right as possible for my writer. And I have never changed my philosophy.
There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.
Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything.
Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.
An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.