Quotes About Acting

There's non-stop movie work for dwarves these days if they want it. I think it's because a lot of people are watching movies on iPads – they fit on the screen better.

Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.

I'm 37 and I was told recently I was too old to play the lover of a man who was 55. It was astonishing to me. It made me feel bad, and then it made me feel angry, and then it made me laugh.

As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.

When we play the part of a great man too much, we seem very small.

To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy.

I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.

I always wanted to play a big, black man, but that would cost too much make-up.

The only way to find the best actor would be to let everybody play Hamlet and let the best man win.

Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.

Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.

I was the nerdy one. I always played those kind of characters until Mad Men.

I did Shakespeare in college and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing 'Mad Men.'

The 12 years that I was improvising are why I got the number of commercials I got when I was in New York and why I got The Devil Wears Prada, and its why I even got in the door for Mad Men.

Before 'Mad Men,' I definitely had very dry spells and I know what those feel like, and I don't think that ever leaves you as an actor.

My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.

I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility.

I was 28 when I played the role of a 65 year old man in my first film.

You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.

I want to play the fake child on 'To Catch A Predator.' No, wait! I want to play the Leaf Man!

I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.

I find what I do for a living really funny. I mean, acting is kind of a hilarious thing for a grown man to call a job.