Actors Quotes
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Actors cannot work against each other. It's totally impossible.
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I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland'.
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My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character.
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I think Russell Crowe is a brilliant actor.
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I was born a character actor.
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A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.
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I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes for the reader.
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I'm one of those actors who's just standing there, waiting and ready for something to come my way. I don't really try to think about, "Oh, I feel the next thing I should do should be a feature. Now, I think I should do a play." I just hope someone wants to cast me in something.
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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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There are many actors who, whatever they do, they pretty much play themselves.
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Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.
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Very rarely do actors, even with features, get to live with a part for that long and really dig into it.
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Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.
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The best thing for an actor to do is take your attention off of how you feel about it, and put it on striving to obtain a particular objective. The happy result is that it brings out all this unexpected stuff in yourself.
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When you're doing a pilot, you're doing it in this bubble that almost works against the creative impulse. You don't have time to get to know the actors first, and you have three writers, as opposed to a room full of writers.
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There are many, many, actors with whom I'd like to share a stage or a set.
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Usually, those people don't even like actors and they can't wait until they get in the cutting room. They kind of break down in categories: directors who like to be surprised and some of them abhor being surprised. As far as directing, we all direct when we're acting in movies... every single one of us.
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I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.
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We set the actors on the scene through the banal discourse of "conflict" in ways that fully deflect from the history and struggle of colonial resistance, refusing as well by that means to link the resistance to other forms of colonial resistance, their rationale, and their tactics.
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Actors don't like to read what they're supposed to do.
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People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.
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Theres just a big group of actors in London. There are new ones coming in all the time, who are looking for work, and established actors who are interested in working and like to work. To be a working actor in England is a life.
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As an actor, I'll play anything.
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You're out there on a high wire without a net, and that's the way actors operate. They have to be fearless about how they work and they have to create a life for the audience in 90 minutes and make them believe.
