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I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success in - it's up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts.

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

Actors are sellers, and I figured out a long time ago that if you wanted to work a lot, you had to be on the buying side.

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

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.

Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.