“Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.” KnowsShouldLongEyeActorsLinesBoysKnow HowMembersLong TimeShotsCamerasHandleCrewElectrician Author:Jodie Foster
“I think I've always had that bird's-eye view of myself. I think it's an actor trait... Sometimes it's best just to get lost out there, but other times you have to be aware of where the light's hitting you.” ThinkingSometimesLightEyeActorsLostViewsBirdTraitsHitting Author:Allison Williams
“I don't think that anyone learns anything. Well, I mean, you do always learn something if you have your eyes and ears open. You do learn something from every outing, every time that you go for it. But for me what actors do is interact and that's why you have to do that.” IfsThinkingWellsMeanEyeActorsEars Author:Morgan Freeman
“Elijah Wood confirms his standing as the foremost actor of his generation. ...Wood acts so eloquently with his sentient face and searching eyes that his job becomes one of concealing how redundant his spoken lines are - a tricky job he largely is able to bring off commendably.” EyeAbleJobsFacesActorsLinesGenerationsStandingWoodsTrickyElijahConcealingRedundant Author:Jay Carr
“As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a director, they're seeing the world through your eyes.” WorldStoriesEyeActorsSeeingDirectorsSeeing The World Author:Jonah Hill
“I think the most takes I've ever done would probably be maybe 10, on like a big studio movie where you can do those. But after a while it's like, "It's not gonna get any better, this is what it is," the light's just gonna dull from your eyes. I think the more you do it, the less the actors listen to each other because then you start memorizing the other person's lines and you start getting bored.” ThinkingPersonsDoneBigsLightEyeActorsCan DoLinesStudiosBoredDullMemorizing Author:Jennifer Lawrence
“To feminine eyes a man's prestige, or his fame, envelops him in a luminous haze which obscures his faults. The triumphs of an aviator, an actor, a football player, an orator are often responsible for the beginning of a love affair.” MenEyeActorsPlayerFootballFameResponsibleFaultsAffairTriumphFeminineLove AffairLuminousPrestigeFootball PlayerOratorsHazeAviator Author:Andre Maurois
“Psychohistory, like psychoanalysis, is a science in which the researcher's feelings are as much or even more a part of his research equipment than his eyes or his hands. Weighing of complex motives can only be accomplished by identification with human actors, the usual suppression of all feeling preached and followed by most "science" simply cripples a psychohistorian as badly as it would cripple a biologist to be forbidden the use of a microscope. The emotional development of a psychohistorian is therefore as much a topic for discussion as his or her intellectual development.” HumansUseFeelingsHandsEyeActorsEmotionalDevelopmentIntellectualResearchComplexesDiscussionMotiveHis EyesAccomplishedUsualTopicsEquipmentForbiddenPsychoanalysisResearchersIdentificationSuppressionMicroscopesBiologistCripplesWeighingIntellectual DevelopmentEmotional Development Author:Lloyd deMause
“Mads is such a talented actor - it's almost like he wears his emotions on his sleeve, but not all the time - when he decides that he needs to, he has such access to his emotional life and it is just really incredible. He can do everything with just his eyes.” NeedsEyeActorsCan DoEmotionEmotionalIncrediblesAccessHis EyesSleevesEmotional Life Author:Gillian Anderson
“And what movies we saw! All the actors and actresses whose photographs I collected, with their look of eternity! Their radiance, their eyes, their faces, their voices, the suavity of their movements! Their clothes! Even in prison movies, the stars shone in their prison clothes as if tailors had accompanied them in their downfall.” IfsLooksEyeFacesActorsStarsVoiceSawsMovementClothesEternityPrisonPhotographActressesMovieRadianceDownfallTailorsActors And Actresses Book:Borrowed Finery: A Memoir Source: Borrowed Finery: A Memoir
“One of the things I love about acting is other actors, looking into their eyes, and working off them, and listening and responding to them.” EyeActorsActingListeningRespondingThings I Love Author:Allison Janney
“When you're casting a movie and when you're shooting a film, the eyes are the most important feature of any performer, really. Any great actor literally knows exactly how to use their eyes, and even as a filmmaker I love shooting huge close-ups because it's those eyes that mean so much to me.” KnowsMeanImportantUseEyeFilmActorsHugeShootingFeaturesFilmmakerPerformersCastingGreat Actors Author:Peter Jackson
“I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don't know why they act and I know why I act. Whether I'm a good or a bad actor, I know why I do it.” KnowsEyeActorsActingWatchesToolsPanic Author:Andy Serkis
“There are actors who make no decisions about how to play something until they're in the moment, looking into their scene partner's eyes. So they're completely available for whatever happens. And those are actors who tend to avoid getting into patterns.” PlayMomentsHappensEyeActorsDecisionScenePatternsAvailablePartnersWhatever Happens Author:Anthony Heald