“I have to say from an actor's perspective, to work with a director who has been an actor through most of their career is a pleasure. They generally have a very deep understanding of the process of what you're doing, of how you are building and exploring the character.” Has BeensCharacterActorsProcessUnderstandingPleasureCareersBuildingPerspectiveDirectorsExploringVery DeepDeep Understanding Author:Karen Allen
“I was always drawn toward the Actor's Studio. I studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute when I first came to New York. One of my favorite teachers was one of Al [Pachino]'s teachers, a guy named Charlie Laughton, who was just a wonderful, wonderful man.” MenFirstsGuyActorsTeacherWonderfulNew YorkMy FavoriteStudiosAlsCharlieInstituteWonderful Man Author:Karen Allen
“There is a difference when you work with actors who have worked on the stage. When we're out there in front of an audience eight times a week, you can't do it on your own.” ActorsDifferencesAudienceWeekStageFrontsEight Author:Karen Allen
“Unfortunately, I feel as actors we have to fight for the right to really go in as many directions as possible.” FeelsFightingActors Author:Karen Allen
“In the theater, actors are the essential element of the work. In a film, it's a real collaboration - not that theater isn't, because it is - but it's a collaboration to such an extent that you can give a performance in film that sometimes you look at and you go, "Well, that's not the performance I was trying to give at all."” GivingTryingWellsLooksRealSometimesFilmActorsEssentialsElementsPerformancesTheaterCollaboration Author:Karen Allen
“As actors, the magic is in the almost spiritual experience to really enter another world, to really enter a belief of being in another person's shoes and to really take on their experiences as someone else has written them and imagined them. It's kind of a sacred thing. It's a very spiritual experience. That in itself for me is the main thing that keeps me coming back to it. I like to travel, but for me, this is the greatest travel.” WorldKindPersonsSpiritualActorsBeliefWrittenMagicSacredShoesComing BackAnother WorldSpiritual ExperienceSacred Things Author:Karen Allen
“There's something so wonderful about being an actor in New York.” ActorsWonderfulNew York Author:Karen Allen
