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I think most actors like to be liked.

I am arrogant enough to know that I am a good actor and people will like me for my work.

I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.

You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else.

Actors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and dislikes of people their entire life, no matter how successful they are. At the same time, in order to be liked, you have to not be yourself. So it's a very complicated human exercise - an alchemy that I have never understood.

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.

You know, the hard thing about audiences not liking what a character does is that they sometimes take it out on the actor personally. That's something that you know when you become an actor or actress, but it's always hard to deal with when it actually happens.

Well, as an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.

I don't like other actors much. The industry tends to attract insecure, needy people.

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.