Actor's Joy Quotes

I love the craft of acting, I love learning, I love everything that comes with the new project; the whole process is totally intoxicating to me.

If you are having fun on screen, it shows.

For a stage actor to be there with the words and the creator of the words - it doesn't get much better than that.

It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but proud when he has created a great work of art. So it is with the actor who really lives a great role and is proud of the part he played.

'Frida' was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn't wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and have my leg get cut off or lose the baby or be in her shoes and get to play my hero and be able to go places emotionally. You know, we live for parts like this. This is a dream for an actor.

That's the great thing about being an actor: getting the opportunity to do something that really speaks to you.

'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that's challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics.

When I like myself, which is not too often, but when I do like myself on film, it's when I point, and I go, 'Look what she did! She did the funniest thing - look at her!' Where I can really separate back from it and I don't see me anymore, then I'm really excited. That's, like, really fun for me. That jazzes me.

I love being the character actor. I get to stretch my muscles a little more.

To an actor, what is most satisfying is that you perform your role as naturally and that people enjoy it, and more importantly, you enjoy it.

I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

One of the many joys of being an actor is to understand the human psychology.

There's nothing like working with the best actors possible, and if you have a piece of material like, 'Long Way Down' or 'Love Punch,' which allows you to play, then it's just a joy to go to work.

I look at Seinfeld - he looks like he's having fun. He's just enjoying being Jerry Seinfeld, you know, on 'Seinfeld.'

I love being an actor, and that's really the bottom line - in any medium, in any genre - and I want to do it.

The most fun part for an actor is the writing and the story and the character. That's very fulfilling.

It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.

'Ray Donovan' was all fiction and pure fun, to be working with such greats as Liev Schreiber and Jon Voight. My character was recurring, but my storyline was intricate to the whole thing. With the character that I played, I got to go through all aspects of my instrument. I got to bring it to tears and to laughter.