Actor Flexibility Quotes

Whoever portrays me on screen need not necessarily be a look alike. Any hero could play my part.

I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script.

People think that theater actors are too big for the camera. It's like, 'No, we're actors and we adjust for our audience.'

I am extremely malleable as an actor, but I also know how to get away with doing things the way I want, even if the director disagrees.

You want a place where you can say that this is your show that you invested in with other actors, but there's also that flexibility of being a recurring actor.

My heroes are Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman. Those are the two actors that both do comedies and dramas, seamlessly. Also John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman. They're all just great actors, neither comedic nor dramatic. They're just great actors.

There is always that potential in the same way - Roddy McDowall ended up playing Cornelius to Caesar [in the Planet of the Apes]. Two different characters. That's the joy of the craft. Bring it on I say.

As an actor, if you want to while shooting, you can run back to your trailer and take a nap. But you cannot do that while directing.

My experience with the National Theatre in Kracow often involved many changes of storyline and character. This was particularly useful when working with a director such as Pawel Pawlikowski who is quite intuitive and demands flexibility in an actor.

You can play yourself and make a very good career out of it. Do the same type of role, the daring, good-looking, dashing kind of guy. I mean, there's a role for that guy in television, films, whatever. But people who are able to shape-shift and go from drama to comedy to whatever, there's an art to it. Especially in Hollywood.

The barrier between TV and movies has come down and film actors are willing to do TV and vice versa, because they just want to follow what's interesting.

I would like to be able to be both a film actor and a stage actor - to be an American actor in the style of a lot the English actors who do films. They are these wonderful actors who can do everything.