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

The minute you start making calculations about what people will think of you as a person based on your work as an actor, you're on the road to becoming a bad one.

As an actor, you get humbled all the time. Everyone is a critic.

And I'm OK being judged as an actor.

Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what it is I do that people want. I don't know what an actor does. I have no credentials. I don't know what I'm doing.

As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.

At the end, it's your movie and your performance that stands out. So if I am a good actor, and if am being part of good entertaining engaging films, audiences will like me.

To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'