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In 10 different takes, you can do a scene 10 different ways.

I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.

I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.

I'm always amazed when any actor can decipher my direction.

A lot of actors are like, 'Why do I do this? My character wouldn't do this? This doesn't make sense.' And in a comedy, you kind of just need to walk into the door.

There are two schools of thought: There are those actors who explain to you that they know exactly how they're going to do the part... And then there is the other method, which is to have no method at all. This is mine.

I'm one of those actors who is going to come in with 2,500 ideas. You can shoot down 2,499, but one of them you're going to like.

My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.