Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes.
I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts in exactly the same way.
Sean Penn, for his acting as well as his writing and directing. There are so many actors I respect, but his reach is so wide.
The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
There are a lot of directors out there who are very specific, visual craftsmen, and while I have the utmost respect for that, they don't really communicate with the actors.
I started to see acting as a real science. That really helped me grow as an actor.
A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.
I love actors, number one. There's probably nobody that you could name that I don't like, depending on what it is they're in.
I'd love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins, but if that doesn't happen, I'd sneak on to a film set and watch him at work. He is a compelling actor.
I truly love the rehearsal process, those eight hours a day! I really love actors.
So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.
I've always wanted to be a singer and an actor. I will continue to concentrate on both because I love both.
I'd love to do Broadway some day. Before I started doing television I was just a primarily a stage actor, but I haven't done it in a while.
I actually love going to a lot of theater movies. I just love watching actors work and seeing how people tell stories.
I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.
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.
