Nilo Cruz Quotes
Theater is about interpretation and what an actor and what a director brings to a piece too. I'm open to it every time I work with a director and a group of actors. I have to be open to that interpretation. I'm not one of those hysterical playwrights that come and say, "This is not what I intended to do." It's one rendition of the piece.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.
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I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.
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I'm not partial to any system, but at the same time, I'm a Korean actor, so I expect to work mainly on Korean projects.
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I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I'm not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.
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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
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I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
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That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary.
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Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
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The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.
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I kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor.
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As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention.
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I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
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They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.
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I love theater. I grew up doing theater.
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I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.
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I was born in Mumbai, but I grew up in England, and then my adulthood has been in the States. I'm an American stuffed with an English person with an Indian person inside. I feel like those things kind of inform me in some way, which I think helps me as an actor.
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A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.
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My parents had a difficult divorce. My dad had to take a backseat for a few years, and my grandfather came in. He was also my inspiration for becoming an actor. I really respected him.
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An actor goes crazy in a hotel room, gets trashed, throws a bench, breaks a window, and he is considered a rock star. An actress does that and she’s sent to rehab and is thought to have problems and issues and can’t get a job.
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I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders.
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I've been very lucky to have had the opportunity to play a diverse cast of characters in the short time I've been a voice actor.
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As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.
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Theater is about interpretation and what an actor and what a director brings to a piece too. I'm open to it every time I work with a director and a group of actors. I have to be open to that interpretation. I'm not one of those hysterical playwrights that come and say, "This is not what I intended to do." It's one rendition of the piece.
