“If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.” IfsGivingRealityYoungActorsResultsAdvicePercentScriptsAuditionsScrapYoung Actors Author:Wallace Shawn
“The only thing we are as actors are messengers. That's all we are. Correct? We are delivering the playwright's intention through the concept of the director. And I come on stage; if I feel confident in the role, then I give it away.” IfsGivingFeelsActorsRolesStageDirectorsConceptsIntentionPlaywrightMessengersDelivering Author:Patti LuPone
“In acting, you are fulfilled if you give justice to your role... if you are able to do a credible performance and touch the audience. Same with directing. If you are able to draw out the best from your actors, then you fulfill your job as a director.” IfsGivingAbleJobsActorsJusticeActingRolesAudienceDirectorsDrawsPerformancesFulfilledCredible Author:Timothy Hutton
“I agree when others say I am underrated as an actor... When you give super-hit films then only you are considered as a good actor. At least that is how it is there in our industry. I think you need to be successful to be appreciated.” ThinkingNeedsGivingFilmActorsSuccessfulIndustryAgreeBeing SuccessfulAppreciatedGood ActorsUnderrated Author:Shahid Kapoor
“if your subject is an actor, he or she will also be shorter in person than they appear onscreen. This, also, you must keep to yourself. Even if you think you are giving their lack of height a positive spin, you aren't. 'You always seem larger than life in photos, but it's nice to see that in person you're just like us' might seem like a compliment, but what a star hears is 'You're stumpy, and you will lose jobs to taller people.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingPersonsSeemsMightJobsActorsStarsLosesNiceSubjectsHeightComplimentSensitivityLarger Than LifeKeep To Yourself Author:Jancee Dunn
“I honestly don't have a lot of friends that are actors. Most of my friends I've known since sixth grade and are out of the industry. It gives me a sense of reality rather than surrounding myself with a bunch of actors.” GivingRealityActorsKnownIndustryMy FriendsGive MeHonestlyBunchGradesLots Of FriendsSixth Grade Author:Ashley Greene
“I think your text [script] is everything; it's what informs you; it's what gives you the given circumstances. Then you take that and you add your own creativity and your own spin on things and you make it personal. That's what makes that character and that text unique to you, when you personalize it. I think that's where your job as an actor comes in.” ThinkingGivingCharacterJobsActorsGivenCreativityCircumstancesUniqueAddScripts Author:Matt Bomer
“My attitude as an actor, because I'm a stage actor, is whatever the director tells you to do, you try it. You don't resist what a director is giving you.” GivingTryingActorsAttitudeStageDirectorsMy AttitudeStage Actors Author:Anthony Heald
“I think I'm an extremely conscientious producer and now equally as a director and it gives me the opportunity to look at the entire movie and really allow the movie to be the creative vision of the actors, the writer and myself, because I'm in charge of it from a producer and a director point of view.” ThinkingGivingLooksActorsOpportunityViewsVisionCreativeDirectorsGive MePoint Of ViewProducersCreative Vision Author:Tony Krantz