“I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.” KnowsI CanStoriesActorsMaterialsHollywoodHungry Author:Chris Noth
“As an actor, I like as much time with the material as possible and given the opportunity, time spent with the other actors in the scene. But that is a rare luxury in working in any TV series.” ActorsOpportunityGivenMaterialsTvsSceneSeriesLuxuryTime SpentTv Series Author:Vincent Piazza
“There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they're being badly directed or the material isn't good enough.” EnoughActorsCryMaterialsDirectorsPlentyGood EnoughGood Actors Author:Mike Leigh
“You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings. The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.” LooksIdeasFeelingsChoicesActorsActingMaterialsPlaywright Book:Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel
“I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.” ThinkingFeelsBookFactsActorsSuccessfulFiveMaterialsMovieSlaughterhousesSlaughterhouse FiveSlaughter House Five Author:Jerry Garcia
“I've always longed for the theatre and acting to be popular. No actor wants to play to an empty house. We only do it for an audience. The more the merrier. I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.” WantLongDifferentPlayFilmActorsHouseActingAudienceMaterialsTvsEmptySeriesIntentionTheatreDistinctionTv SeriesBlockbusterEmpty HousesMore The Merrier Author:Ian Mckellen
“I know what its like to direct. You become a more considerate actor. After you have directed, you understand what is going on. You can't help but think of the material as a director. You do come up with suggestions. You come up with shortcuts that you weren't aware of before. You try to be helpful to the director if he has a lot on his hands.” IfsThinkingKnowsTryingHelpingHandsActorsMaterialsDirectorsDirectCome UpHelpfulSuggestionsShortcutsConsiderate Author:Dolph Lundgren
“Glass is a thing in disguise, an actor, is not solid at all, but a liquid?an old sheet of glass will not only take on a royal and purplish tinge but will reveal its true liquid nature by having grown fatter at the bottom and thinner at thetop, and? It isinvisible, solid, in short a joyous and paradoxical thing, asgood a material as any tobuild a life from.” ActorsMaterialsBottomGlassesDisguiseSheetsRoyalJoyousLiquidParadoxical Author:Peter Carey
“I get the greatest joy from just doing anything, being an actor. Doing music, and doing what I love to do. I don't make a huge distinction between comedy and drama. I think the whole point is just trying to be as honest, from moment to moment, as you can be. If you're honest about the material, and the material is ridiculous, then you're in a comedy.” IfsThinkingTryingWholeMomentsJoyActorsComedyHonestMaterialsHugeDramaRidiculousDistinction Author:John C. Reilly
“The greatest gift that an actor can have is good scripts because then you're relieved of the responsibility of trying to elevate the material.” TryingActorsResponsibilityMaterialsScriptsGreatest GiftsRelieved Author:Holt McCallany
“Performance is made in the editing room, and I've come to see the truth in that - the idea that they say performances are usually made in the editing room because what you film is the raw material. I think just going through the process of saying, "Which take do we use? Why is that the take we want? I want that take can you edit again, I'm not sure that's the one, I think it's this one." And just because you go through that process, I think somehow it's made me sort of more open about the [actor's] possibilities.” ThinkingWantMadeIdeasUseFilmActorsProcessRoomsPossibilityMaterialsPerformancesNot SureEditingEditsRaw Materials Author:Ralph Fiennes
“There are short parts that I as an actor am very right for. Or I just like the part. Or you need someone like me for the movie. By that I don't mean at the box office, I mean in the execution of the material.” NeedsMeanActorsMaterialsOfficeBoxesLike MeExecutionBox Office Author:Jack Nicholson
“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
“A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.” IfsBookSpiritActorsMaterialsSourceMovieRespectful Author:Graham Greene
“I've never revised my opinion of myself as an actor. I've always thought I was as good as my material.” ActorsOpinionMaterials Author:Troy Donahue
“Hollywood people don't want to be embarrassed by being involved with someone who isn't happening and cool at the time. But I never made the movies for the critics; I've done the best I could with the material and the directors and the actors I had. But the thing that's really exciting is that once I do that one project that's different, that stands out, everyone's gonna be watching.” PeopleWantMadeDifferentDoneActorsMaterialsInvolvedDirectorsProjectsHappeningsHollywoodExcitingCriticsEmbarrassedStanding Out Author:Pauly Shore