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I think as an actor, you're constantly putting yourself out there, and a lot of times failing - and failing in front of a bunch of people - and sometimes you have a good moment and something clicks.

You work really hard to make it, and maybe you get some acclaim, but then you realize there are certain limitations as an actor.

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

Every film for every actor is a make-or-break film. I believe every film has the power to break you or make you. So, an actor will treat every film like his last film. That's the way we need to work, and that's the way you can drum up that passion needed to do good work.

As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.

You always have these moments when projects are over when you wonder if you'll ever work again. In the end, what it comes down to is that it's a fine line between becoming too enamored of your own success and maintaining the confidence to do what you do and do it well. That's the line every actor, if they're lucky, has to walk.

There's a lot of young actors and people who have success very quickly who kind of expect it or don't have the experience to really appreciate it.

I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.

But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.

The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in it. And when they don't come to fruition and nobody sees them, there's a part of you that dies a little bit. It's like, 'Ah! But I worked so hard!' But that's the business.