Quotes About Acting

Let me play a Man in a scene.

I love weird man, when you get to do something that you don't necessarily get to do in real life, play characters that are a little bit outlandish.

For a straight man, I seem to have to kiss an awful lot of men!

It wasn't until The Sixth Sense that people started saying, wow, man, you're an actor. People didn't think of me as the guy in a band anymore.

I did a movie with Clint Eastwood and I knew I wasn't going to be able to 'out-man' him.

Actors are con men and con men are actors.

What we consider typical of the male is a question I ask myself quite often - its relevant to my life as an actor and as a man.

I've always seen actresses who constantly date their leading men or somebody they co-star with, and I've been the opposite. Once I act with you, I feel like you're my brother.

It's my job to try to communicate with as little showiness as possible. I was a really showy actor as a young man.

I've not often been a man of many words. I've never considered myself to be overly articulate. I do feel more comfortable acting something out than I do explaining something or whatever.

The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.

It's so rare, especially as a younger actor, to find a role where it's not just one-dimensional and it's not just a stock leading man.

I'm not one of those people who's saying "I'm going to set up a production company", because I like acting and not having to be a business man and do that side of things.

It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there lying like an actor.

I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them.

I wasn't playing Nixon's satirical stick figure. I was playing Nixon the man. As an actor, I felt I had to get to the deeply flawed humanity of the guy.

If you'd ever told me that my Broadway debut would be playing Spider-Man, I would have laughed in your face.

The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now. I will be in it, if I'm the best man for the job, but it really is about creating characters and shows.

If you were an actor, anybody could go on Broadway and take a George Carlin hour and do it on stage as a one man show. They're all stand alone essays.

I'd like to do plays, maybe a one man show.

In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.

I think to have a regular job and be a mom is not as, of course there are challenges, but it's not like being on set.

A lot of moms give their kids line reads. My mom wasn't put in that position because I always had an acting teacher helping with the feelings rather than how to say something.

I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.