Alan Alda Quotes
You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.
Quotes to Explore
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Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.
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As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
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I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.
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I love actors.
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I think there is a lot of space for people to love who they love, and a lot of space for actors to carve a niche for themselves.
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Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.
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There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.
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My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.
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There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress, by the end, theyve forgotten that, and they leave going, Wow - what an amazing play.
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Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.
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In film, movies schedules are based on three things: actors availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place youre going to film in.
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Unfortunately, I feel as actors we have to fight for the right to really go in as many directions as possible.
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Enforcement efforts should focus on aggressive prosecution of bad actors under existing anti-fraud laws rather than imposing costly and largely ineffective procedural requirements on all public companies.
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As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.
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I've been training as an actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean, the college course is only four years! I absolutely trained.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating. There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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I think actors make the mistake of finding their little niche in the business and once they try to do something a little darker, boom, they get slapped across the face for it, so they go back to what they did before.
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Most actors don't know what they're going to do next, so you get into this thing where you have to force yourself to have another life outside of acting. And then, as soon as you start something in this sort of normal life that you're trying to live, you get a job. So you have this constant struggle because you want to be able to commit to things and to finish things in your life, but then you also want to be able to act.
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Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.
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Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.
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When I do the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I always go across to Loch Ness and stay there.
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You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.
