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The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.

I was very introverted. I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people.

I think most actors are shy. I really do. The greatest actors can disappear. I had friends call me the Blend-In Man.

All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.

I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves.

I think most actors like to be liked.

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.

Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.

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.