Pastoral Resources

You can say what you want to about a rapper in a movie, but look at what Ice Cube has done. Ice Cube has created more opportunities for other actors to get jobs in this business than some actors have.

Things are changing. I've been training since I was 9 years old to stretch my wings as an actor dramatically, but have never really been afforded the opportunity to show that.

There isn't a switch that I turn on. I'm an actor. This is what I do.

Some of these guys... I've worked with Ice Cube, I think he's an immensely talented rapper and actor.

Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.

I've worked with some actors who can't act.

There's editing, and scripts to read and edit, and casting, and all the elements of production that just sort of take up the normal downtime that you would have as an actor. So there's not a lot of that for me.

One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.

All people are half actors.

I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans.

British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.

Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor.

Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.

Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.