The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.
After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought I was from Mississippi and uneducated. After Fargo, everybody's going to think I'm from Minnesota, pregnant, and have blonde hair. I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.
You can't do four movies and be good to everybody and be flying all night and shooting all day with a different wig and then be going to sing on Broadway without feeling a little tired. You endlessly feel you're letting somebody down.
Ah just act the way ah feel.
You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now.
I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches.
The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.
I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.
I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.
I got into the acting business very young.
Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.
I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.
Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.
Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.
I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.
When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.
Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents.
That's what I always enjoyed about acting, the real adrenalin rush. My heart - still before I go on stage - crashing out of my chest. That's thrilling to me.
I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.
I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.
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