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Actors make choices for different reasons.

Because actors don't get to pick movies; movies pick the actors.

People have this belief that actors are able to go out there and say, 'Oh I choose this job,' but most of the time we're just taking the job we can get. We don't just get offered thousands of jobs; we might earn one job a year and that's the one we'll take because we've got to pay the rent.

I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.

People very often say to actors that they admire their careers, and I rather think that what's implied by that is that we have a choice in the matter. When really, most actors, me included, do whatever comes along next.

I have a friend who says that roles choose you at the time that you need them most, and you have to believe, as an actor, if you didn't get a part that you really, really wanted, and it went to someone else, it was because it was theirs to begin with.

I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.

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.