When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French and not acting. So when I start….

Eventually, this is how I would like to be remembered at the end of my career: He was never the best in anything he did - comedy, acting, filmmaking,….

What's fascinating about acting is that you put yourself in somebody else's mind or in their shoes..

It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting..

I'd like to get more bit-acting roles. I don't know if my talent would allow for a long dialogue, but I could definitely knock out three lines..

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for….

Making movies in France is different, but it's still acting, you know. You still have doubts and you're scared, always, but I really love doing films….

I didn't want to break with my family. I wasn't about to make waves. But I had this feeling I wanted to do something that I liked to do. Acting's wha….

Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Penn to me are the two best actors of all time. I'm just glad to have the pleasure to be in an era that they're acting whil….

I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills..

I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique..

Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened..

Singing is the rawest thing. Having been naked in films or naked in photo shoots, it's nothing compared to singing. It's absolute nakedness. You are ….

I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be..

I never wanted to lose out on an acting job and wonder if I hadn't been trained enough..

Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting..

The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'.

I don't have the desire to be the best standup in the UK but I do have the desire to be the best at everything else I do in terms of writing and acti….

I have the confidence that I can take anybody and have them give a good performance, because I don't think there's anything to acting except expressi….

I become a bit of a blank page in public. And that's precisely why I like acting..

This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew..