Being an actor is like being a bass player: one of the component parts to the collective hole.
I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.
As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being justified.
The role of an actor is to make every character believable.
When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.
I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
To be totally sincere, I'd surely be a better actor today if I hadn't played Columbo all these years.
An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor.
Everybody wants to have their 'Breaking Bad.' It went to Bryan Cranston. It couldn't have happened to a better guy or a better actor.
Every actor dreams of getting a big break, a big opportunity.
I always knew I'd be an actor. I always knew I'd at least be on a big screen somewhere.
I didn't want to be a big star. I wanted to be a really good actor.
I guess it's a kind of a goal for any actor to be the lead of a movie. Not for ego reasons, but because it is creatively the biggest challenge.
The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, who's really funny for a cartoonist, obviously.
In nighttime series, the actor gets billing up front on every episode.
You can learn a lot from somebody's video bio: if you're not going to gel with the actor or a crew.
I was in a movie with Marlon Brando. Now, I didn't have any scenes with Marlon Brando, but I had scenes with Martin Sheen and was around Dennis Hopper, who was a child actor in the studio system and was enamored of James Dean, as was Martin, and they were all sort of disciples of Brando.
I loved Marlon Brando: my favorite actor.
If I wasn't an actor, I probably would've tried to get a job with the Braves.
It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.
