I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.

I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got.

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty polluting energy-intensive business.

At the end of drama school I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.

With a recent birthday I've been acting now for twenty years.

A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired you don't have that hunger.

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.

Acting is still of course what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters it never gets boring.

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it's just a big play.

People think that if you look fairly reasonable you can't possibly act and as I only care about acting I think beauty can be a great handicap.

To me teamwork is the beauty of our sport where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude and you can be anyone.

I saw 'Taxi Driver ' and 'Taxi Driver' kind of saved my life. The scene where Robert De Niro is looking at himself in the mirror saying 'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Who the hell else are you talkin' to?' That's the scene that changed my life by changing my attitude about acting.

I'm a big fan of Courtney Love. I love Hole and I love her acting and I love her attitude. I just hope I never meet her in a dark alley.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it so I signed up for acting instead.

Actually the year anniversary of what you just heard my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.

Yeah to me acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life I frequently precipitated what I feared most the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.

Voice-acting on the fun meter is off the scale. You show up you don't have to be all primped up or dressed up. And you get to work with some amazing people and goof off for four hours.

John was the smartest and most amazing comedian I've ever worked with. I think more than teaching me about acting or comedy he taught me about life and the love of people and respect of people.