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I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.

I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is. I was a little bit different.

Actors are inherently self-centered.

I suspect, for a lot of people who become actors, there's a feeling of wanting to be someone other than who they actually are.

Well, when you're playing a role, you have to think, 'What is ultimately motivating the character?'

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.

Actors have an innate sense of self and humanity, the good ones do, and of being generous of heart and generous of spirit.

Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.

Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who watch what we do.