“I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.” WorldActorsActingSeaElementsBizarre Author:Sam Neill
“The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.” LittlesActorsProcessInformationElements Author:Danny Strong
“I'm always in the elements, it seems like it's pouring rain on me a lot and there's crowds of people pushing me around, and it feels very real. Which is great as a actor, you don't have to come up with too much of it. I'm always amazed.” PeopleFeelsRealSeemsActorsToo MuchElementsRainCome UpCrowdsPushingAmazedPouringPouring Rain Author:Charlie Day
“In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.” PlayCharacterHateActorsElements Author:Janet Montgomery
“I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life.” FeelsActorsStrangeElementsFishesAliensSwimming Book:Last letters to a friend, 1952-1958 Source: Last letters to a friend, 1952-1958
“every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.” KnowsActorsComedyDependsElementsTragedySurpriseHardestInevitableLinearElement Of Surprise Book:Saturday's Child: A Memoir Source: Saturday's Child: A Memoir
“The word 'ego' is very important. The ego is an important element of being human, and of being creative. We need that ego in order to give us a confidence of doing what we're doing. Ego pushes us into the creative world in order to create for something more. I think that a great company of actors, they all have egos, very strong egos, but they're all prepared to share together in order to achieve something even better than that.” ThinkingWorldNeedsGivingHumansImportantTogetherOrderActorsStrongCompanyCreativeShareAchieveEgoElementsPreparedVery StrongBeing HumanBe CreativeGreat Company Author:George Ogilvie
“Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music and camera and putting it all together. And that can be fun and exciting. If you fail, it's incredibly upsetting - much more upsetting than when you're an actor. But when you succeed it's incredibly, incredibly exciting, so I like the risk of it all.” IfsTogetherFilmActorsFunSoundActingFailingRiskSucceedElementsExcitingCamerasPainterUpsetSound And MusicFilm Directing Author:George Clooney
“Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work with, writing in the first person not the third person, and pulling out the dramatic elements in a bigger way for a stage presentation.” WayWantWritingFirstsPersonsBookDifferentActorsStageMaterialsElementsThirdsBiggerDramaticPullingPresentationFirst PersonThird Person Author:Brian Greene
“Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.” NeedsActorsImaginationElementsToolsObservationPrimaries Author:Stephen Lang
“To make a great movie is such a combination of different things that need to come into play to actually make a memorable film and not have a film to fall by the wayside, to have something live on during the years, and one of those elements is the commitment the actors have to their performance.” NeedsYearsDifferentPlayFilmFallActorsElementsCommitmentPerformancesCombinationMemorableDifferent Things Author:Edward Zwick