Someone asked me if I was a method actor - I loved that! I needed to know what it felt like to lose everything just to do the Bad Day video! I could really feel the angst!
I had never really done voice-over. If you've ever seen me, I'm more the communicator through body language and movement I'm a physical actor.
I feel like I'm more of a physical actor than a voice actor.
It must be hard interviewing actors.
If you talk to any actor, they'll tell you that working is the best thing.
Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'
I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
There is also a distinct possibility that there are other actors ? whose names have not leaked to the press ? who may stand just as good a chance of landing the part.
Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
I always wanted to be an actor. I had the arrogance to believe I couldn't be anything else.
The whole thing with comedy is that you are always in control. Writer, director, actor, producer, and sometimes bouncer. And you are just a piece of their puzzle.
I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.
I always wanted to be an actor.
"I've never see you do something like this before and I'd love to see you try." For a young actor, that's about the most exciting thing that anyone can say to you.
I think actors like to be directed. Actors like to know where they're headed and what they want, so I'm very encouraging.
Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing subsequent episodes.
Nobody is out to sabotage an entire script and do an improvisational experiment of a movie, but when they're feeling something in the moment, let them make it their own. That's what makes them great actors.
It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.
Every character actor, in their own little sphere, is the lead.
I think as an actor, it's very exciting when you have a really fully realized, complex, multifaceted character already established.
Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for me is if I feel a director hasn't noticed.
What I try to do is give each actor an environment in which they can do their best work.
I stopped doing that [photojournalism] and wrote some screenplays on speculation, because even though I wanted to direct, to direct you need a lot of money. Even for a cheap movie, you need film stock and equipment and actors.
My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it.
