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The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in it. And when they don't come to fruition and nobody sees them, there's a part of you that dies a little bit. It's like, 'Ah! But I worked so hard!' But that's the business.

Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.

Some of the roles that are challenging are more in theater and TV. In movies, there's a tendency to cast actors in roles that have been successful for them. It has to pay for itself.

The action-movie genre is a very difficult one to get satiated in terms of your acting bits.

The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that's really, really tough.

All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.

As an actor, you know there are things you get asked to do that you do quite well, with less effort.

The hardest thing to do in movies is be a day-part player. You have to go in, make your mark, and get out. There's a lot of leading actors who are not good for a lot of a movie, and then suddenly they have good moments, and they're like stepping-stones across a particularly feisty stream. They build careers out of that.

As an actor, sometimes you've gotta take the jobs that you may not want to do. It's so hard to work as an actor.

I mean, I hate when actors talk about how hard their job is. It's ridiculous, because we have the best job in the world.