“As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds.” KnowsNeedsCharacterActorsBackgrounds Author:John Noble
“I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.” DifferentAgeActorsRaceDiversityBackgroundsLandscapeDifferent Ages Author:Ryan Phillippe
“I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds.” PeopleWayKindAgeCertainActorsBitsFindingsBackgroundsLike MePosh Author:Kaya Scodelario
“The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.” ActorsVoiceCreativePerformancesBackgroundsFearlessCompetentLive Performance Author:Rob Paulsen
“I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting.” YearsActorsActingStageBackgroundsStage ActorsActors And ActingStage Acting Author:Tommy Wiseau
“My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.” TryingYearsDoeActorsEightTheatreNineBackgroundsContemporaryDancerUnusualBalletNine YearsBallet Dancer Author:William Kempe
“A lot of people who are actors and artists who work in Hollywood come from a background of abuse, and you can make abused people very fearful and they'll do what they're told. Hollywood definitely has a point of view that it sells.” PeopleArtistActorsViewsHollywoodAbuseSellsPoint Of ViewBackgroundsFearful Author:Roseanne Barr
“I don't even think places like the National Youth Theatre (NYT) are necessarily about wanting to be an actor when you grow up. They're about meeting people from different backgrounds and different religions and different cultures, and mixing with people that you wouldn't ordinarily meet.” PeopleThinkingDifferentCultureActorsGrowsGrowing UpYouthMeetingsTheatreBackgroundsMixingDifferent CulturesDifferent ReligionsDifferent BackgroundsYouth Theatre Author:Ashley Jensen
“with a country of rare picturesqueness for a background, a people of rare beauty for actors, everybody more or less permeated with the artistic instinct and everybody more or less writing poetry - California has a pageant for breakfast, a fiesta for luncheon and a carnival for dinner. They are always electing queens. In fact any girl in California who hasn't been a queen of something before she's twenty-one is a poor prune.” PeopleWritingCountryFactsGirlActorsPoorTwentiesInstinctDinnerBackgroundsArtisticCaliforniaQueensBreakfastTwenty OneWriting PoetryPageantCarnivalsPrunesFiestaRare Beauty Author:Inez Haynes Irwin