Actors Quotes
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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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In my movies, there has been little to do in the way of animal rights. I have never worked in a movie with animals. No horse-riding, no trained dogs, lions, bears. A few actors, but what could I do? We had to have them.
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A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.
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It doesn't matter if I have experienced actors alongside or novices. It doesn't matter if the director is one film old or a hundred. All I'm interested in is doing justice to the role.
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We can make ourselves actors, but only the audience can make a star.
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The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise taste and judgment in helping the actor give his best possible performance.
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Well, of course, every actor's limited, and I am the first one to admit it, in all honesty, when I think that I've hit the wall a bit. I'm not ashamed at all, I think it's a process that you have to go through. That's how you learn.
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I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.
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When most actors finally get to L.A., I think they expect to be the next Will Smith or Denzel Washington and that's not the case.
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I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling.
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John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.
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Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.
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Actors don't like to read what they're supposed to do.
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There are some actors who are rehearsal actors, and some who are not. I am not. Having said that, I don't know what I am talking about.
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A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.
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You're very in tune with, because actors are all different, and it's very tricky when you throw us all together because we all work differently. You want to get the best work out of every individual actor.
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On the whole, British actors star in theater, and I think there's something quite grounding about that.
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When you first start out as an actor, you're just looking for a good part. As time goes on, if you're being held responsible for the movies themselves, you're looking for a good script all around.
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You should always challenge yourself, as an actor, to find the connection between you and the character.
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It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around.
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As an actor, you have to have your history.
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Models have a stigma that they can't act. You're also, to be quite blunt, you're tall and not a lot of actors are tall and when you are starting out you're obviously not the first one cast, so you're trying to fit into a mold. You're quite often not cast as the quirky best friend, but you don't have the experience to be cast as the lead. So it can be really tricky. One of the biggest things is just to get your people, so to speak, your agents and managers to take you seriously. That's one of the issues I had when I came out to LA.
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I think even if you're on a screen or you're in a play, it's always a group effort. It's not just the actors, it's the editor.
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In so many areas, when you think about it, you never really see an actor cross over to music. It always music to acting and it's receivable because when music gives a form of entertainment of art to where it's very personable, it's a passion, it's an intimate type of art to when you hear it, it's them.
