“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'm kind of private and I keep things inside a lot, but it's been so wonderful to realize that people care about you in a very deep way and that there is some bond between an actor and his audience. I don't even know how to describe that feeling.” PeopleKnowsWayKindFeelingsCareActorsRealizingAudienceKnow HowWonderfulVery Deep Author:Michael J. Fox
“Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.” KnowsHumansKindArtistActorsCreativityKnow HowHuman NatureDirectorsMusicianTendenciesTrendsPredictionsGreat ArtChordsGreat ArtistPrevailingAmenable Author:Maurice Saatchi
“Josh Radnor is that rare thing: a writer-director who thinks like an actor but still knows how to create a comedy with shape and vision. Liberal Arts is the best movie about college I’ve seen since I don’t know what...Dryly affectionate and super-sharp. Elizabeth Olsen is every inch a star.” ThinkingKnowsArtStillsActorsStarsVisionKnow HowComedyCollegeShapesDirectorsArt IsInchesAffectionateJoshLiberal ArtsRare Things Author:Owen Gleiberman
“Look, a lot of directors were actors, even if they were unsuccessful actors which I think is helpful. I think it's a really helpful thing for a director to have experienced that. It helps you know how to talk to actors and how to get what you need from them.” IfsThinkingKnowsNeedsLooksHelpingActorsKnow HowDirectorsHelpfulUnsuccessful Author:Grant Heslov
“As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor. ...The scientific actor is an even worker. Any one may achieve on some rare occasion an outburst of genuine feeling, a gesture of imperishable beauty, a ringing accent of truth; but your scientific actor knows how he did it. He can repeat it again and again and again. He can be depended on.” KnowsMayFeelingsActorsInterestLosesKnow HowAchieveEffectsFineLaborWorkersAccidentsGenuineOccasionsRepeatsSuspectsGesturesNot InterestedAgain And AgainAccentsOutburstRare Occasion Author:Minnie Maddern Fiske
“John Doyle just knows how to feed actors, and what comes out of us, good, bad, right, wrong, doesn't matter. There's no fear or censure. He opens up the creative goo and all of the actor vessel stuff. He knows how to do it. It's just incredible.” KnowsMatterActorsStuffKnow HowCreativeIncrediblesNo FearVesselCensure Author:Patti LuPone
“My dad was a lovely guy. I had great parents. But he was a conservative shopkeeper, and he said, "Look, I don't know how to help you as an actor, but if you want to be an actor, give it a go for a year. Get a job. And if you don't get a job, then we're going to reevaluate and you're going to go back to school." And I thought that was a fair thing.” IfsKnowsWantGivingYearsLooksSaidHelpingSchoolJobsGuyActorsParentKnow HowDadFairsMy DadConservativeLovelyGreat ParentsShopkeepers Author:John Kapelos
“I love working with actors, and it's great that I'm an actor myself. I know how I like to be directed and how I like to be talked to.” KnowsActorsKnow How Author:Courteney Cox
“I don't have any training in dance. I can convince an audience that I know how to dance because I'm a convincing actor.” KnowsI CanActorsAudienceKnow HowTrainingConvinceConvincing Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“A lot of American actors when they do Shakespeare put on a phoney English accent and it drives me crazy. You're always fighting against the idea that only the British know how to do Shakespeare.” KnowsIdeasFightingActorsKnow HowCrazyBritishAccentsDrive Me CrazyAlways Fighting Author:Ethan Hawke
“I do not like the Broadway theatre because it does not know how to say hello. The tone of voice is false, the mannerisms are false, the sex is false, ideal, the Hollywood world of perfection, the clean image, the well pressed clothes, the well scrubbed anus, odorless, inhuman, of the Hollywood actor, the Broadway star. And the terrible false dirt of Broadway, the lower depths in which the dirt is imitated, inaccurate.” KnowsWorldWellsDoeActorsStarsSexVoiceKnow HowTerribleClothesIdealsPerfectionHollywoodCleanDepthTheatreToneDirtHelloBroadwayInhumanMannerismsAnusBroadway Theatre Author:Julian Beck
“I think the key that differentiates the good actors from the mediocre ones that are still trying to come up, is that the good ones know how to listen. It's like being in a jazz band. They know how to listen to what the other musicians are playing. And where to come in and where to sit out. That's my approach to being in an ensemble cast and working with any kind of actors in a scene.” ThinkingKnowsTryingKindStillsActorsKnow HowKeysSceneBandApproachMusicianJazzCastsCome UpMediocreGood ActorsDifferentiateEnsembleJazz Band Author:Wesley Snipes
“It's odd, how those things happen to actors. A thing where you think, "I have no idea how to do this," something will happen in your life comes up and you just get it. I don't know how you get it, but actors are pretty extraordinary, in that regard. I think it's fear that happens.” ThinkingKnowsIdeasHappensActorsKnow HowRegardExtraordinaryCome UpThings HappenNo IdeaOdd Author:Michael Keaton
“Getting the correct writer is simply like casting. You wouldn't hire an actor in order to tell him how to work. He knows how to work, which is why you hired him.” KnowsOrderActorsKnow HowCasting Author:William Monahan
“With directors, some have a kind of in-built ability to just know how to work with actors and get the best out of actors, and some don't have a clue about acting. I think it'd be a good idea if directors put themselves in front of the camera, or even went on a six-week drama course, just to know a little bit about what that feels like.” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsKindLittlesIdeasCoursesActorsBitsAbilityActingKnow HowWeekFrontsDramaDirectorsSixLittle BitBuiltCamerasGood IdeasClue Author:Paddy Considine
“As an actor you want people to know you and there are times you want your pictures taken, but it's unnerving to walk out of a venue with friends and there are 20 people flashing lights in your face. Do you know how bright those lights are?” PeopleKnowsWantLightFacesActorsWalksKnow HowTakenDo You KnowYour FaceVenuesPicture TakenFlashing Lights Author:Ashley Greene