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You never really know why you become an actor: it's a visceral thing, an emotional thing.

The life of an actor lends itself to emotion, and yet you have to be tough as old boots to stay at the table.

You're always dealing with emotions as an actor.

It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.

Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's what I like.

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become an actor by leaving yourself, and then you have to keep acting. How tragic!

You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.

As an actor, sometimes you feel a pressure to change yourself from time to time.

I'm not the kind of actor that can go completely cold into an emotional scene. I have to transport myself emotionally by whatever means possible, and that basically means you carry the situation with you all week, all episode or all day beforehand.