Acting is the perfect idiot's profession..

There was no actually stock footage in "Medium Cool." I wrote the script. I wrote the riots. And I integrated the actors in the film in the park duri….

The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope..

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..

As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's a positive..

When I first started out, I was a bad actor..

Nothing exists but him..

I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and 25 percent actor, but I can well see the day when the reverse could be true..

All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor..

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor..

Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ….

Everything is dead while it lives..

Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed ….

It's hard to compare actors from different generations..

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it..

Can'ttrustpeople. Won'tdoanygood. They'llkillyoueverytime. They'llkilleachother. They'llkilleveryone..

Everybody changes, not just me..

I always thought that Bill Murray was one of the great actors that I've worked with. And I've worked with all kinds of people who are known primarily….

I am a pretty good actor. Most of my friendships are based on the fact that I pretend to be outgoing and funny in social situations, but when I get h….

The hardest thing for everyone, for the writer, for the director and certainly for the actors, is not to panic when they're doing a certain line for ….

Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors..