For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
I think for a lot of people, acting becomes a lifestyle, especially when you're living in Los Angeles.
There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.
I like acting in London-not least because it means I can go home after the show every day, rather than being on location making a film.
But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor.
Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.
I'm a working actor, and I want to stay a working actor, and I want everybody happy.
You spend most of your time as an actor unemployed, so you're not going to hear me complaining that I haven't had a day off in three weeks.
The only thing I don't like about acting is that it takes so much time away from my family. Otherwise, I don't have any complaints.
For an actor, personal and professional life are two different things, and marriage is something which happens in everyone's life, and it is the same with an actor, too.
It's thought of as an eccentric thing for an actor to really try to maintain quality control through the whole career. Most people think, 'You just work. You just keep working.' And in some ways I wish I could be a guy who's just a workhorse.
The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones, but it's not like working a 9-5 job and only having two or three weeks off a year. I may not have seen my girlfriend for two or three months, but then we can spend two or three months together solidly.
My mother is a hardcore actor's actor. She's not a celebrity. She really isn't... And so her main concern was that I not fall into the auditioning-is-my-life syndrome.
I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
With this acting and this lifestyle, your privacy does get taken a little.
As an actor, I always have this thing where I can't plan ahead for holidays or a break because I don't know when I might be needed for the next job.
