Good actors are always looking for props. They're looking for behavior. It makes it a lot easier. You're not solely dependent of what's coming out of your mouth. You're also less self-conscious, less aware of the camera.
You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
Working with any actor is like working with a monkey.
I started pulling gags on Al [Pachino]. That was the moment I realized that he was absolutely out of his mind. I mean that he's certifiably insane. I wouldn't spend a night in a room where he's at.
Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty.
Billy Magnussen, he's a wild one.
I did a couple of movies in Brazil, and the actors were incredibly congenial and hung out together a lot. Even the biggest stars would do radio commercials - they're not put on a pedestal like they are in the United States.
I'm not really a Method actor. I'm always afraid of working with someone who's afraid to [break character] and won't talk to anyone because they're in character.
Johnny Depp was the most polite young actor I've ever worked with.
On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.
I had worked with many actors who were angry at times and often found them to be tense.
James Franco is a Method actor. I respect Method actors, but he never snapped out of character. Whenever we'd have to get in the ring for boxing scenes, and even during practice, the dude was full-on hitting me.
You take advantage of your position as a famous actor to meet women.
I've worked with very few actors who have been at all difficult.
Mel Gibson was lovely. He was on the edge of both scenes that I had with Danny Glover.
That Shaw is the most egotistical thing! He hogged the camera and spent more time with the hairdresser and the makeup man than any actor on the lot!
I think there is a major difference between actors and actresses. All of the men I've worked with have been really difficult, whereas the women have always been extremely cooperative. I began thinking about that, and I think it comes down to a question of comfort with vanity.
I find actors who play nasty guys in movies are the nicest guys in real life, and the opposite then goes for heroes.
f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!
One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.
Unlike other young actors I've worked with who will remain nameless, Zoey Deutch and Lucy Fry would never go out partying after work, but would immediately hunker down to start working on the reams of labyrinthine dialogue they had to navigate for the next day's work.
I have a really dry sense of humor. I don't think it's funny when people wink at the camera. That's more of an actor thing, just committing to whatever the thing is.
All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.
Steve Buscemi, in between takes, becomes like a clam. It's hard to get a word out of him. It's very funny.
I know there are some actors who won't switch their accents off when they're on set and like to be called by their character's names. That works for them, and that's great.
