Actors Quotes
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It's rare that you get to work with actors, female or not, where you all get along. Just because of the nature of humanity.
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A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.
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A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.
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It's no fun for an actor to keep repeating what you did before. It's always changing. I'm changing. The target keeps moving. That's the beauty of it.
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What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.
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Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world.
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I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland'.
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It was pretty surreal to be auditioning as a kid, and I'd get close to these actors that I really respected. I remember River Phoenix in particular. I met him at an audition hall or something.
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I don't have to meet actors. I'm really blessed that I don't have to do all that horseshit.
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David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.
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The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.
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I've spent most of my life trying to make actors comfortable, which I think is 90 percent of getting a good performance.
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I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact.
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The reason the contracts are so long is because actors are very spontaneous; we may want to do Shakespeare one day and be Porky Pig the next!
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I don't know if child actors are necessarily more screwed up than most people.
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I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.
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A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.
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Don't watch people's individual performances. Watch the energy that's being passed between them, and then you'll see if the scene is really working or if the actors are really doing their job. If they're playing with the energy that's between them, they're not just acting in their own little bubble.
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Eventually, in '84, we made a film for a little over a million dollars - with American actors that was shot in English - that was shown in Finland A little action film called Born American.
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I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second.
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I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.
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I'd like to think I'm an actor who leaves things at work.
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There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that.
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I would say that maybe directors who act as well are easier with actors. I'm not saying that all directors have this, but sometimes you'll come across a director who sort of looks at an actor a bit like a kind of untrained horse that's been let out of the stable, like they might buck him.
