It's in the eyes, mostly. Don't listen just to the other actor's lines. Look at - and listen to - their eyes. That's where the emotion comes through.
You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.
I think that's all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages it has some meaning to it.
I hate watching myself, as do a lot of actors.
Have you heard anything useful come out of an actor's mouth lately?
I think that an actor who is working should be a happy actor.
When I was 11 I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.
There's such a grand fraternity of actors who've played the Joker, not the least of whom is Mark Hamill, who voiced it for so long and was so great. I did it one time and... I've gotten some feedback on it from people who've seen it and really enjoyed it, but I don't know.
It's hard to be surprised by a film. It's hard to be surprised by another actor or by a director when you've seen enough and been around. So when I am, or when I forget that I'm watching someone's movie, or when I don't know how someone made a certain turn that I didn't expect... You know, I'm in.
The greatest thing an actor can experience is discovery. The greatest thing an artist can walk away with is to learn something about themselves and the world and this was one of those.
As an actor, you generally want to see the other actor's face.
I've never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn't know how really great he is.
Jeremy Renner is an incredible actor.
Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.
The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.
I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.
A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.
I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.
Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary.
An actor should refine public taste.
As an actor, when you're doing comedies, you're around fantastic, funny people and you hopefully have a really good time doing it.
Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.
We're very good friends, we have a very honest relationship. He keeps me honest, I keep him honest. He's an incredible actor and when you have an actor like Denzel action becomes drama.
