Mark Pellegrino

Mark Pellegrino: With experience, I learned to either do what a director asks me to fully, or politely sit down and say, 'Here's what I think.' You end up being more satisfied with your work when you do that.

Mark Pellegrino: (on his admiration for "The Number 23" co-star Jim Carrey and their similarity on both being perfectionists) ...someone who makes 20 or 30 million a movie deals with the same insecurities, is fallible and can be unsure about what's happening. Even if you're older and wiser, you can still tend to idealize a person and think they can do anything. Not that you are reassured at their lack of anything, but at their humanity.

Mark Pellegrino: (advice to acting students) What I've loved in certain actors like Jeff Bridges, Naomi Watts, and Philip Hoffman is something I'd like to transmit to the students; it's a childlike willfulness to do and play. You develop a technique to the point it becomes a part of you, but you must never cling to a technique. In the end you just let go and do. I don't care how good a technician you are, if you can't play, you're done.