Pastoral Resources

Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.

Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.

Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability.

I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me.

I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.

Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.

As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.

A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep.

If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.

I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.

You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.