When I started off as an actor, the last thing I wanted to do in the world was make money. I was under the impression, when I started off as an actor, that the more money I made, the more it would diminish from my creativity and my capacity to be an artist.
I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.
For the players, these top, top, top games or these top, top, top events - like a World Cup or a European Championship - are not common but, of course, something special.
I started off doing plays as a theater actor. But I never thought of it in terms of it leading anywhere. I was just trying to be the best actor that I could be in the context of what I was doing.
Off the top of my head, Alan Cumming was probably my biggest inspiration, as an actor and as a queer person.
I've met people at the top of companies like Accenture who started off in McDonald's.
An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.
I'm an actor. I started as an actor. I started on Broadway doing 'Hair' and Shakespeare in the Park.
I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
My dad is now a federal judge, but when he started off, he graduated from the top law school in Texas and couldn't get a job.
The goal for the top American isn't the top twenty - it's top ten, top five, number one in the world.
I consider myself a fortunate working actor, but I really work at it all the time. If I have a couple of weeks off, I'm taking class. You never stop. I started when I was 10 years old in Cleveland, and I've never stopped working my butt off.
The history of Test cricket will suggest if you hold the top of off longer than anyone else you will have success, in England particularly it's about owning the top of off.
I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and the next day I started to do that.
As a player, I started in Serie C and got to the top of Europe and the world.
When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met - how do I top that?