The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.
During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the work without deviating from the writer's intention.
I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.
The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.
I don’t have any regrets,” a famous movie actor said in an interview I recently witnessed. “I’d live everything over exactly the same way.” “That’s really pathetic,” the talk show host said. “Are you seeking help?” “Yeah. My shr...
That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.
I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue.
As an actor, you get to sort of bounce back and forth in terms of the age range you play and the life experience that your characters have.
I follow Elle Fanning's career. I really like to follow actors who are a similar age to me. Just to see what they're up to.
The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.
My career as an actor started when I was six years old, taking dancing lessons. Then I started getting paid jobs to dance at the age of seven.
The most amazing thing you can ask for as an actor from a director is that you're being seen, that the choices made are informed.
I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good.
I just enjoy working with really wonderful actors and amazing creative people and I hope to keep doing that, no matter where.
I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.
I became an actor because it was my clumsy attempt to become myself.
I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.
I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
There's so many good comic actors that you just take the best of and try and run with it yourself. Try and bring a little bit of yourself to it, too.
