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You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.

There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in, I've acted them out just to be sure another actor can do them.

I want to do entertaining films, where a woman gets the respect of being an actor.

The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime

I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.

Unfortunately for the 'Tomorrow' series, I feel that for the actors that were in the first film, maybe our commitment to it is done.

I appreciate film actors who respect the film making process.

I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.

Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.

Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.

[This kind of strange mythology about me.] I've pulled a huge steamboat over a mountain; I've done a feature film with all the actors acting under hypnosis - things that are very unusual.

I personally believe the film turns out better when shot in one short schedule, plus it doesn't stress the actors.

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

In terms of cinema and filmmaking, there are certainly the unexpected gifts that the actors bestow on you. Film is always a question of compromises with respect to what you originally intended.

There are so many talented people in film today. There seem to be poor scripts, but the actors and actresses are very talented.

It's quite clear if you look at the actors in film right now, some of them came from theater but they didn't come from musical theater. There's still a bit of a stigma attached to it I would say.

The greatest all-around American film actor is James Stewart.

'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors.

I have a theory... Theatre actors are better at auditions than film actors.

If I wasn't an actor and I watched my films, I could easily be like 'This guy's a clown,' you know?

Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well and who doesn't.

Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell the story, and when it's told, there's another one to tell.

I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there was a bunch of them at once.

I don't think film actors need training, really.

The barrier between TV and movies has come down and film actors are willing to do TV and vice versa, because they just want to follow what's interesting.

The beauty of being an actor in a horror film is that you know what to expect and what's coming.

Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.

Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do - honesty but subtlety.

Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.

I thought 'I can't be an actor, I can't'. Then this film came up and it was like someone saying to me, 'You can, don't give up'.

Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.

I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.

In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me.

Being able to work with Ridley Scott on this film is like being able to play on the Olympic team for actors.

I want to bring something different to every film. I get a bit tired of actors who kind of are the same character in every film that they do.

The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never going to do as a director.

When I was younger, people used to say you only really prove yourself as an actor on stage. And I disagree with that. Some of the finest acting I've ever come across has been for film.