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

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.

There's probably a half-dozen movie actors I really like. But a lot of them just aren't that interesting.

I admire a lot of actors; I think a lot of them have so much talent.

Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting.

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

A lot of good actors tend to be quite introverted as people.

I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.