“I learned how to turn it on and turn it off. You learn that in theater, too, but for film work, I learned from doing 'Henry,' I learned how to leave work at work and go home. There's always spillover. Actors speak of this.” HomeFilmTurnsActorsSpeakTheater Author:Michael Rooker
“Before I start directing a show, I try to spend a few weeks hanging around the set, getting to know the crew and talking to the actors about how they like to work. Who is fussy? Who is left-handed? Who wants to go home early, and who is the perfectionist?” KnowsWantTryingShowsHomeActorsLeftTalkingWeekCrewPerfectionistHanging AroundLeft HandedFussy Author:Eric Stoltz
“The hardest thing about being an actor, and especially when you're a woman trying to also have a family and a relationship, is to maintain some sort of normalcy. With television, you might not be home a lot, but you have a routine.” TryingHomeMightActorsTelevisionHardestRoutineHardest ThingNormalcy Author:Julianna Margulies
“I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job.” HomeJobsActorsAsksDriversTruckTruck Driver Author:James Gandolfini
“If I had a child actor, I would wish for it to be in an Adam Sandler movie, because he just comes in and makes them so comfortable and is so brilliant with them and they all go home and they that they've got this special relationship.” IfsChildrenHomeActorsWishSpecialComfortableBrilliantAdamChild ActorsSpecial Relationship Author:Kate Beckinsale
“I have great admiration for athletes. They are just like actors in a lot of ways. They have tremendous pressures and conflicts. They have to compete, and they can't stay home just because they have a head cold.” WayHomeActorsColdConflictPressureAthleteAdmiration Author:Ben Cross
“It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It's inevitable that you're not going to have a so-called normal childhood.” HomeSeemsActorsGrowsGrowing UpChildhoodNormalFasterInevitableInterviewsEnd TimesSpend TimeClicheAway From HomeTime Away Author:Matt Dillon
“Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?” PeopleShouldHomeFilmActorsPayTelevisionMovieStay StrongStay PositiveStay At Home Author:Samuel Goldwyn
“It's one thing to be sitting at a drawing board, alone in your home and coming up with a fantasy character, and drawing her whichever way you feel like drawing, then dealing with a real performer. All of a sudden, things change. It's amazing, in working with actors, how much I learn from them and how many new lines will come to mind because of their personality or their strengths.” WayFeelsMindRealCharacterHomeActorsLinesFantasyOne ThingPersonalitySittingDrawingBoardsPerformersThings Change Author:Frank Miller
“Since I started making films, I've been a nut for dialogue. When I first saw Star Wars when I was 12 years old, I came home and recited all of the lines from it. Before I talked about Death Stars exploding and Tie Fighters I was talking about how funny Princess Leia was and how sarcastic Han Solo was. So to me that's always the most important thing, and I love hearing great actors say great lines.” YearsFirstsImportantWarHomeFilmActorsStarsLinesTalkingSawsImportant ThingsHearingDialogueFighterTiesSarcasticNutsPrincessSoloGreat ActorsExplodingLeiaDeath Star Author:Bryan Singer
“Most of actor's work is done at home, in your hotel room, in the wee hours of the morning thinking and reading and feeling, walking around and listening to music. It really just because an internal exercise, whatever skills. It's great if you have to learn something new for a gig and designing a character physically is always fun but it does become an internal exercise in separating the wheat from the chaff.” IfsThinkingDoeDoneCharacterFeelingsHomeReadingActorsFunHoursRoomsMorningDesignListeningWalkingExerciseSkillsInternalsHotelSomething NewListening To MusicGigsWheatSeparatingHotel Rooms Author:Colin Farrell
“I try to give my work everything I've got, because when you're dead or you're out of the business or you're in an old actors' home somewhere, if you've done a good job, your work will still be 16 years old and dancing and healthy and pirouetting and arabesquing all over the place. And they'll say, "That's who he is! He's not this decaying skeleton."” IfsGivingTryingYearsStillsDoneHomeJobsActorsHealthyDancingGood JobSkeletons Author:Mel Brooks
“The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.” FirstsHomeActorsTalentPerformancesTheatreMemorableGreat Talent Author:Kevin Spacey
“I dont think I could compare myself to Macaulay Culkin, because were pretty much two different kinds of actors. Hes done a lot of comedy. He does mostly just comedy like Uncle Buck and Home Alone and Home Alone 2. And Ive done a lot of different stuff, like sad movies, like the movie about the kid with AIDS.” ThinkingKindDoeTwoDifferentDoneHomeKidsActorsStuffComedyAidsCompareDifferent KindsUnclesBucksMe AloneSad Movie Author:Brian Bonsall
“Id have to fight for an Australian role over an American actor, and I already have to do that overseas, so why would I have to do it back at home?” HomeFightingActorsRolesAustralian Author:Bojana Novakovic
“I thought being in the wheelchair might be kind of limiting for me as an actor. It turned out cool in a lot of ways. Of course, at the end of the day, I can get up out of the chair and go home, but I'm very acutely aware that most people can't, so I try to give the situation that depth.” PeopleWayGivingTryingKindI CanEndsHomeMightCoursesActorsSituationDepthGet UpThe End Of The DayChairsBe KindWheelchairs Author:Jim Beaver
“Statistically, it would be insanity to go into the theatre for money. According to the statistics, you should just stay home. The odds are just incredible.” ShouldHomeWould BeActorsTheaterIncrediblesTheatreInsanityStatisticsOdds Author:Maureen Stapleton
“I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I was still living at home.” ChildrenStillsHomeFilmActorsPennsylvaniaChild ActorsIndie Films Author:Charlie McDermott
“That excites me, working with really excellent people, be it wonderful directors or actors or cinematographers and especially writers. My work life is going to a set and having these great experiences and coming home shifted by them.” PeopleHomeLife IsActorsWonderfulDirectorsExcellentComing HomeGreat ExperiencesCinematographers Author:Deborah Kara Unger
“What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.” MenWorldFeelsMindReasonFeelingsHomeHandsLightUniverseActorsLostMemoriesSleepLandIllusionStrangerDivorceSettingFamiliarSettingsAliensRemedyAbsurdityExileDeprivedPromised LandMyth Of Sisyphus Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“There's things that I can do as an actor that I couldn't do in any other form of life and I've got a strange personality. But film requires strange people, so I've got a nice comfy home.” PeopleI CanHomeFilmFormActorsCan DoNiceStrangePersonality Author:Denzel Washington