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"Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my life but I don't live in it. The hoarding instinct in human relations."
"I always knew I wanted to be an actor. I was talented in college but not the most talented. But I knew I wanted to do it, and that intention got me there and kept me there."
"I think I'm a much better painter than an actor."
"I've had a lot of operations. I'm kind of like Franken-actor."
"I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor. "Rocky" was an ensemble film. "F.I.S.T." was an ensemble. "Paradise Alley" was an ensemble."
"If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a character actor."
"I can rely on me [being a director], unlike some actors. I never got anything less than what I needed from the lead actor."
"I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor."
"As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not."
"Old actors never die, they don't even fade away. They're always available."
"Every actor turns everything round to their character."
"I'm not one to mythologize other actors too much, but obviously Sandy Bullock is a gorgeous woman."
"All I know is that when I go somewhere, I'm not an autobot. I am a human being. I am not an actor."
"I am a human being. I am not an actor."
"As an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged."
"As an actor, I've learned to become a detective. You have to figure out who that person is. If the character is a thief, you have to figure out what makes them a thief. Whatever the prevailing idiosyncrasy is, I have to find it in the script."
"They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good."
"For me as an actor because I've been at it so long, it becomes much harder to watch movies because you really see the seams of everything."
"I think it's very rare, as an actor, that you get to a script, or an idea of a script, and you go, "Oh, I just have to do that!" It fell into place very quickly."
"You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in."
