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Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.

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.

I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.

In all of us, there is a struggle between the good and the bad. It makes it more palpable and real to play such people as an actor.

The truth is, good actors are always looking to do something different. They are dying to play slightly odder characters or work on movies that aren't straight down the middle.

Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavoury.

I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.

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

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty.