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.
An actress' best friend is a body which responds instinctively to thought.
As an actor, my body is my tool to flesh out the roles I play.
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.
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.
I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.
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.
