Actors Quotes
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As actors, we get used to disappointment. We go on a hundred job interviews a year and get two or three jobs.
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Writers are not always right however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything and it's terrible.
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It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality. And even more difficult for a woman if she's lesbian. It`s very distressing to me that that should be the case. The film industry is very old fashioned in California.
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We use improv in all kinds of fun ways. Sometimes it's to invent or discover new things, sometimes it's to weird out the other actors, and sometimes it's to create a sense of fun, to find new things inside the scripted lines.
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I read about some movie where they did everything on blue screen, and the actors were not even connecting to each other.
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Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.
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I came to feel as protective of Elijah as Sam does of Frodo .. In turn, Elijah helped me discover a lot about myself and I literally might not have survived the journey had this young prince of an actor not taken me under his wing.
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As soon as you put an actor to a person who is real, that person comes to life through another person.
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We actors, we're a fragile bunch, and yet we need to be strong because 90% of our lives is rejection.
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I just wanted to try directing, and the best way was to write the material, so I was imbued with its origins when I was dealing with the actors.
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There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.
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My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful.
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As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.
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Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.
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I always tell actors, "Don't think of it as unemployment when you don't have a job. You have to think of it as being in preparation for your next job." You have to be always preparing for success.
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To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.
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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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You risk working with this director, you risk making this movie, you risk working with another actor you don't know. It makes your heart beat faster. And it keeps you interested.
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Working out and working as an actor have gone hand in hand—I always feel more prepared if I know I have done a workout. It gives me confidence—and peace of mind.
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The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.
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The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role -- unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.
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There are actors who make no decisions about how to play something until they're in the moment, looking into their scene partner's eyes. So they're completely available for whatever happens. And those are actors who tend to avoid getting into patterns.
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People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.
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Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.
