Jon Cryer

He was asked to audition for the role of Chandler Bing on Friends (1994), while he was doing a play in London. His reading was videotaped by a British casting agent but the tape failed to arrive in the United States before the network had made its final decision.

(on the difference between acting on stage and acting in movies) On the stage, you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film, they're always saying, "Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.".