Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.
I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.
I actually love going to a lot of theater movies. I just love watching actors work and seeing how people tell stories.
Some of the roles that are challenging are more in theater and TV. In movies, there's a tendency to cast actors in roles that have been successful for them. It has to pay for itself.
Mostly in movies an actor has to come to a mark, an X, and deliver his line - but that's so artificial, that's not how people really behave.
As most actors/actresses, I don't like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the dailys while filming.
I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.
I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.
My husband and I are writers, and I wish I could write faster. There are not a lot of movies made with black actors in mind.
As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.
I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.
There's always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made, it's that trickle down effect.
As a young actor, I found myself in all these movies at once, with two big trilogies and a Cameron Crowe film and working with Ridley Scott a couple of times.
I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.
I don't think I could compare myself to Macaulay Culkin, because we're pretty much two different kinds of actors. He's done a lot of comedy. He does mostly just comedy like 'Uncle Buck' and 'Home Alone' and 'Home Alone 2.' And I've done a lot of diff...
Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places. I like movies because it's kind of a combination of every art: it's like, it's picture, it's story, it's music...
Before I was an actor, I was never able to hold a job for more than 3 months for some reason. It just wouldn't hold my interest, so there was some way that I wound up quitting or getting fired from it. But being an actor is perfect, because movies us...
We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it's very rare to see the Chinese male actor in Hollywood movies, which is something I take great umbrage with. You know, my son is Asian. He may want to direct one day; he may want to be an actor l...
The point of being a movie star is that people cast you in a role. Actors tie themselves in knots trying to get out of that.
As an Asian actor, I would like once in my life to do just one Hollywood movie. It would be a memorable experience.
Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.
