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Ultimately, however, the script an actor enlivens is someone else's words.

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

As actors, sometimes we want our character to go somewhere different than it goes, but that's being an actor.

In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.

Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes.

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

Actors always start with the voice and language. That's wrong. They should start with the body. The body is an actor's most important resource.

A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.

Inevitably, every part an actor plays contains some of himself.

It's hard talking about acting, in a way, because it's like explaining a joke: I do think it loses something in the telling.