Actors Quotes
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If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.
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Actors and burglars work better at night.
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When you work with a good actor, there is this natural rapport and chemistry that develops over time. That chemistry helps your characters come alive and makes the story of the film that much more convincing.
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I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.
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There's the art house movies and the action movies and the chick films. I think the same thing's happening with actors.
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There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.
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To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.
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It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.
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Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.
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Bill Powell is the only intelligent actor I've ever met
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Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at the drop of a hat. That's so uninteresting.
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What I hope is that I don't just become 'Peter from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.' I want to try and do something else to be a good actor and a respected actor.
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I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type.
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I look for something that grabs me and that's heartfelt, and that's coming from a good place. I want to work with good actors and with directors that I can learn from.
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With any actor, rather than tips, I think when you enjoy working with somebody and you enjoy what they do, I think your reaction is partly to be doing what they're doing, so you're learning all the time, whether it be sub-consciously or whether it be just through the person you enjoy working with.
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I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.
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That mental grind is the same, and this show has to be approached with the same mentality. Rest is paramount. Taking care of my voice and making sure I have the right foods in my body is paramount. Making sure I'm doing my technique work and staying in the script is all substantial. Continually pushing myself to find different nuances in the character on a nightly basis. This is definitely boot camp for me all over again, and Broadway in general is a boot camp for all actors.
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If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.
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I think that when you put yourself, as actors have to do, in other people's shoes, when you have to put on the costume that someone else has worn in their life, it gets much, much harder to be prejudiced against them and even to be - to not try to look at the world in a sense of "I'm not going to judge somebody. I'm going to try to understand who they are and what they're about."
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As actors we always say that once the person in a scene gets what they want, the scene is over. It's resolved. But life is never resolved - you're always in the process.
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Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles, ideas and inhibitions that stands between him and the part, until one day, with a great rush of air, the character invades his every pore.
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That's one of the fun parts of becoming an actor: You can become whoever you want to be.
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Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world.
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If youre not concerned about maintaining an image, you can pursue roads that another actor might not take.
