My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
Actors like [Clint Eastwood] have a kind of dynamic lethargy: they appear to do nothing, and they do everything. They reduce everything to an absolute minimum. For instance, he had perhaps a four-line speech, and he reduced it to four words.