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People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

I think the life of an actor is very glamorous to other people - then, realities set in.

It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around.

Everybody has parts of themselves that they're not 100% happy with - that's what makes you human. And being an actor, your job is to play human beings. Your job is to play real people.

Actors always have things that they're not thrilled about on a show and have a hobby of bellyaching about those things.

The life of an actor can be very enviable.

Being an actor is just like being any other sort of self-employed person - we're all just happy to have a job in the first place, but we also thrive off the uncertainty of it.

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.