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You have to have an ego to be an actor, but you need an ego just to get through life! Unless you want to sit on a corner and suck your thumb, it takes a healthy ego to get up in the morning and say, 'I deserve to be here.'

I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.

I never wanted to be an actor, and to this day I don't. I can't get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man, and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.

I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life.

Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.

As an actor, of course, you want to be in something that's successful.

I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.

You have to be selfish to be an actor.

I don't have any expectations as an actor, and being rich and famous is not my driving force.