To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then ….

One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen..

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting..

You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part ….

I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel..

I've always internalized things.

It is very easy to slowly lose your self confidence in a business where rejection is a possibility with every trial. It is a business after all and t….

I mean one of the weird things about TV and one of the things that some actors don't like but I kind of dig is that you never know where you're heade….

I would like to go on that path of evolving into a better actor..

I would really love to work with Clint Eastwood..

The telephone is an antiquity - you never know who is calling, there is no image, it is an outmoded product which constantly disrupts work..

As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a director, you really get to paint a bigger picture. Y….

...an actor is exactly as big as his imagination..

Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for..

As an actor, I think most people have a tendency to want to demonstrate that they can act, they can emote..

That's just part of the blessing of being an actor: you get to learn so many things about life..

Confidence and hope do more good than physic..

What is power without control?.

One of the greatest things I've learned, as an actor, was how to talk to actors..

Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin..

I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them..