As an actor, you don't have much choice about your appearance. It's a good excuse for looking ridiculous.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As an actor, you have to understand how you are seen and then play with that. Otherwise, my looks are not important.
I think if you're an actor you kind of have to be willing to look stupid.
Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor.
Some actors don't mind it. Those who are pretty. They think it's nice to be looked at because they are nice to look at. I appreciate that. I'm very happy to salute that aspiration. But I don't like the way I look so I don't like being photographed. I become defensive.
When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like.
It helps an actor an awful lot when he looks like the part. There's nothing more disconcerting, that makes you more anxious or more insecure, than when you don't look like who you're supposed to be.
An actor's life is all about rejection. It's you they don't want; it's you who's too tall or too short or too fat. With stand-up, it doesn't matter what you look like.
When an actor decides to play a character, he must exude some sort of charisma and look relatable, even if he is playing the role of a really unattractive person.
My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.
I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor.