Actors Quotes
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Sometimes you'll have great actors who aren't comfortable with improvising. Which can get pretty frustrating. But every actor's coming from a different place and they have their own strengths and weaknesses and your job is to sell them as two people in the same world. Some of them have to have their hands held and some I just let loose entirely.
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But what I've also really liked about it is that it not only has Marvel set about... if they just were slavishly trying to bring the comic books to life, literally, I don't the movies would work, because it's different to see something on screen in three dimensions with actors, and they kind of, I believe, are constantly trying to find a way to absolutely respect the source material and at the same time, transform it into something that works and that you believe on screen.
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After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.
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I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.
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Sometimes actors come in, you record them, and they do their role.
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[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.
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I feel bad for young actors who become huge stars too quickly, because you haven't had a chance to practice your craft a lot.
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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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Parts win prizes, not actors.
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Every actor has their own method, so I'm not suggesting what works for me will work for everybody else.
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I know a lot of actors who've just gotten bitter because they did something and then nobody ever saw it or whatever.
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I made movies with some very nice people, experienced actors.
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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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Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing.
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L.A.'s cool; I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody's a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor.
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That's why there's so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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William Hartnell was one of the great unsung character actors of his time
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In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.
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When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn't pleasant. I always think: 'Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?' But I have to remember the bigger picture.
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It's the rare happening when actors get together and you have chemistry, connection, just something that works, that's bigger than what's on the page.
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All actors have to make the words fit in their mouths, and make the words the words fit to how you say it and how you make it life-like and make it look like what you're saying is just conversation that you're just thinking off the top of your head. That process is not quite improvisation.
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The reason why most of actors got into acting was so that we could become other people and have fun with being somebody else.
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You're literally being an actor - you're pretending - and that's not what I like to do.
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I had a lot of time before I actually got my break so to speak. I was building websites for other actors. I worked in a grocery store back in the little village where I grew up but I found it mind-numbingly boring.
