Pastoral Resources

The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors.

The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

It's of course understandable that people want to know about actors in their favourite series.

However, I hope I am also judged on my accomplishments as an actor and not just on my pretty face!

As an actor you have one great fear: pimples!

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.

The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open.

I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.

Actors are crazy or we wouldn't be doing this.

Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.

My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.

Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.