Actors Quotes - Page 99

It's hard to visualize James Bond without seeing one of the actors who played him. And it's hard to visualize Harry Potter without seeing Daniel Radcliffe. A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.

If the [actors] are working, and I have a dinner engagement, I don't do 20 takes. I do five takes and go home. I want to go to dinner.

I can do a limited amount of things and that's what I do and I feel comfortable doing it and I have no particular desire to do anything else as an actor.

As I got more confident, I was able to let actors improvise, and do long takes. It's 10%, 5% you learn and experience. The rest you just have or you don't have.

I don't like to meet the actor and have a lot of conferences and talk about their sub-life and their off-screen life and their back stories and all that nonsense, because it never means anything.

I have great faith in the actors. When they improvise, it always sounds better than the stuff I write in my bedroom. When they improvise, they make it sound alive.

Sometimes some of the best moments are contributed by the actors being creative, with their own improvisations.

It's all through the actors; I cannot write in that idiom

I would compare it to an actor. I drive myself into the character that later on is in the ring.

Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to connected because it connects you to architecture, it connects you to painting, it connects you to writers, to actors. It connects you to really all of the arts.

Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor-unassisted.

For me, honestly, I'm an actor. There's one thing I know how to do - act. And that's all I know how to do. Through our work, [actors] can trigger awareness.

You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of all, there's this whole thing about playing sitcom comedy. I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. I went slowly. We went through the week of rehearsal, then we got on the floor with the cameras, which I'm used to because of my experience in the old days. Then came camera day, with an audience, and it was stunning, enthralling, exciting and chaotic. I had never experienced anything like that before, as an actor. I was part minstrel, part actor.

Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.

A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.

I did a movie in Esperanto.

The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.

I'm a journeyman actor, and I don't ever want to forget that. With romantic-lead dreams.

I'm probably the most pessimistic actor I know. I'm always sure I'll never work again.

For some reason, I seem to work well with actors. I love working with them.

I never write with particular actors in mind.

Even though a screenplay is performed only once, unlike other forms of drama, it's still a performance in itself, and unless it's a great performance, odds are that actors will not come, and a movie will never be made.

Getting the correct writer is simply like casting. You wouldn't hire an actor in order to tell him how to work. He knows how to work, which is why you hired him.

Every actor has their own method, so I'm not suggesting what works for me will work for everybody else.