“I'm still very much about being an actor. That's why I'm not married w...” — Elliot Cowan Quote

I'm still very much about being an actor. That's why I'm not married with kids.

As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.

I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.

I do revel slightly in the fact that I am what I am - an English, middle-class, public-school-educated bloke. There is a reputation with that of being slightly stiff, but whoever gets to know me will see some other element - whether it be vulnerable or silly or camp.

If you're a 'character actor,' you get hired to play baddies a lot.

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

I'll tell you what I think in general about people who want to make their Broadway debut that are not trained stage actors. Don't they know, Broadway ain't for sissies? It is a tough gig. You are responsible, physically, mentally, emotionally, for eight shows a week, at the top of your game. It's not easy.

The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows.