It'd be hard to be a lead actor if I didn't have lips. Those are tough to graft back on.
When you're an actor, your body isn't your own. Your body is part of a tool that you use. Everybody else there is using you as a tool, so they have access to those things, too.
As an actor, my body is my tool to flesh out the roles I play.
An actress' best friend is a body which responds instinctively to thought.
An actor's body should be full of emotions, whether it is happiness or sorrow, pain or joy, enraged or elated.
My body has done for me all these years things I couldn't ever even dreamt to do for characters. It's a tool, molecularly speaking, and I need to take care of it.
I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.
Actors have to maintain their physique, or they will fizzle out!
How you look is part of what acting is, but the way I look at it, every actor is a character actor. Someone once told me at a casting, 'You're a character actor in a leading man's body,' and I can live with that.
Audience doesn't necessarily come only to see a hero with six-pack abs. They will watch him, but if someone who doesn't have that physique and is playing the protagonist, they'll watch that too.
