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Actors are smart. They have to feel safe enough to fall and to get back up. My job is to make sure they don't get hurt.

Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.

Our impulse as people is to try to control; as an actor, you have to give up that control.

Sometimes, as actors, we feel like we want to hold on and control where a character goes.

A lot of actors think that what we do is so important, like we're saving people's lives or something.

Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging.

I feel as though, as an actor, you can only make brave choices when you're acting with people that you're so relaxed with that you can make a mistake.

An actor would be foolish to do something that might hold up the picture, or more importantly incapacitate him. If an actor does do a stunt he needs to make sure a stunt man stands by to see that it's done correctly.

As an actor, I always feel you basically have to be able to delude yourself.

We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.