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I really respect actors much more now that I am one because I realise what hard work goes into being part of the industry.

I have a lot of respect for my fellow young actors. It takes a lot to push forward after being told no a million times, and that was what we all have to go through. So those who push deserve respect.

When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way.

On my set, people have to respect the actor's process. I totally respect what actors do. I give them whatever time they need, and I never scream out directions from the camera. I take the time to walk up to them and talk to them personally.

The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.

There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

Part of the privilege of being an actor is the people you get to work with.

I just love the process of working with other actors.

All actors have a significant amount of vanity about work, and necessarily so. Things they will do and won't do, and I've completely lost all of that. I don't care.