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I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.

Every actor you work with has a different method, same with the director. You have to figure out what your shared language is and how to best support each other, and also take care of yourself.

Growing up in a family of actors, what's great about it is that they're very supportive and they understand what it's like to be an actor - the rejections, the highs and lows... and having a common language with them is great because you have shorthand speech.

Theater is about language, so characters have to define themselves through language for an audience.

Actors want to be told what to do - they really do. But they also want to have an input and be recognized for that.

As an actor, you come in contact with so many different people and cultures. It makes you a more accepting person.

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.

There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.

Actors want to act. I think a lot of times what happens is that they're expected to bring it all. Probably because I'm a writer, I'm not telling them what to do. I just provide them with as much as I can.