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It's very unusual for scenes to be added for a character.

You can't steal every scene. There are scenes in which you need to sit back and do a lot less, verbally, physically.

Too many actors try to get too much out of scenes that they ought to be leaving alone, just doing them quickly and getting the hell out.

But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the middle with number Three, but I didn't realize he would move in with quite such a bang.

Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

All actors almost always try to steal some of their wardrobe.

It's hard to get lost in a scene, to get into a character when everyone's standing around you on the set.

Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had.

I don't know if you can ever steal a scene from Louis C.K. or Melissa McCarthy. I think that's kind of impossible.

The only other things, and again these things are hearsay, is that he could be pretty rough on directors, because he knew exactly the way he wanted to play the part. And he did so.