“When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York.” ActorsNew YorkCollegeScreensGuilds Author:Marla Maples
“Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.” ActorsDifficultCareersSuccessfulNew YorkTelevisionMovedActressesScreensCardsMiamiObtainingGuildsSuccessful CareerTelevision Commercials Author:Donna Rice Hughes
“Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there's nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It's that same thing that you feel when you watch yourself on a video camera and you hate the sound of your voice - it's that times 800.” FeelsBigsHateActorsSoundVoiceNaturalWatchesCamerasHearingScreensVideoMovieFilmmakingBig ScreenVideo CamerasHearing Your Voice Author:Eddie Redmayne
“To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.” CharacterActorsFindingsScreensCasting Author:Rupert Sanders
“Screen work always boils down to that moment between the camera and the actor or the actors. It always boils down to that, ultimately. You serve the camera.” MomentsActorsCamerasScreensThat Moment Author:Alfred Molina
“But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.” ThinkingBookGuyActorsDifferencesCasesDirectorsScreensAdapted Author:Ray Walston
“I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold his hands and look up in the spotlight, I'm lost. There's only one other thing in the movies I hate as much, and that's sex. You just can't get in bed or pray to God and convince me on the screen.” PeopleLooksHandsHateActorsLostSexPrayingBedI HateScreensLook UpConvinceFoldsPraying To GodSpotlight Author:Orson Welles
“In the early days of my carer as an actor, I shared what was then the prevailing attitude of Negro performers :;that the content and form of a play or a film scenario was of little importance to us. What mattered was was the opportunity, which came so seldom to our folks ... Later I came to understand that the Negro artist could not view the matter simply in terms of of his individual interests, and that he had a responsibility to his people who rightfully resented the traditional stereotyped portrayals of Negros on stage and screen.” PeopleLittlesMatterPlayFilmFormArtistActorsOpportunityIndividualTermInterestViewsAttitudeResponsibilityStageImportanceFolksScreensTraditionalPerformersScenariosPrevailingPortrayal Author:Paul Robeson
“I was a big Mickey Rourke fan in his first incarnation. I thought that at the time he was America's greatest screen actor.” FirstsBigsAmericaActorsFansScreensIncarnationMickey Author:Jamie Sives
“Only in the theatre was it possible to see the performers and to be warmed by their personal charm, to respond to their efforts and to feel their response to the applause and appreciative laughter of the audience. It had an intimate quality; audience and actors conspired to make a little oasis of happiness and mirth within the walls of the theatre. Try as we will, we cannot be intimate with a shadow on a screen, nor a voice from a box.” FeelsTryingLittlesActorsVoiceEffortQualityAudienceWallLaughterShadowResponseBoxesTheatreScreensIntimateCharmPerformersApplauseMirthAppreciativeOasis Author:Robertson Davies
“Garrel has succeeded in filming something we have never seen before: the faces of actors in silent films during those moments when the black intertitles, with their paltry, illuminated words, filled the screen.” MomentsFilmFacesActorsBlackFilledSilentScreensSilent Films Author:Serge Daney
“Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old.” YearsWellsActorsActingHappenedScreensThirtyThirty YearsGuildsThirty Years Old Author:John Sayles
“On the stage you try to act real. On the screen you try to be real.” TryingRealActorsStageScreensBeing Real Author:Shirley MacLaine
“I don't ever want to do a movie where you shoot it on a motion capture stage. I just don't like taking the reality out of it. I like being on the set in real environments. I don't like shooting on green screen. I think it gives the actors so much more to play with when there's real stuff happening on the set.” ThinkingWantGivingRealPlayRealityActorsStuffEnvironmentStageHappeningsGreenScreensShootingCaptureReal Stuff Author:Michael Bay
“In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second.” IfsPastActorsFoolTheaterScreens Author:Gloria Swanson
“I think there's something so wonderful about being part of the process from the seed of the idea to seeing it come to life on a screen. And to have a hand in that creatively, not just showing up as an actor for hire.” ThinkingIdeasHandsActorsProcessWonderfulSeeingSeedsScreensShowing Up Author:Jennifer Aniston
“I remember seeing Aladdin when I was five or six and loving it. I looked at the big screen and said to my mum, Whatever this Genie guy does, I want to do. Mum said I couldnt be a genie, but that Robin Williams, who did the voice-over in the film, was an actor. So I said, OK, then, I want to be an actor.” WantDoeSaidBigsRememberFilmGuyActorsVoiceFiveSeeingSixScreensMumRobinsBig ScreenGeniesVoice Over Author:Darren Criss
“I think audiences like to see their favorite actor handle himself physically on screen, however he does it. He can wrestle, or box, or he can know karate.” ThinkingKnowsDoeActorsAudienceBoxesScreensHandleKarate Author:Thomas Ian Griffith
“It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.” CertainActorsWeekTelevisionScreens Author:Giancarlo Esposito
“The most dramatic moves I have made as an actor have been from stage to screen and from sitcom to drama.” Has BeensMadeMovingActorsStageDramaScreensDramaticSitcom Author:Jasika Nicole
“Sometimes, when people use too much blue screen in movies, the actors don't look credible, because they have their own opinion of what the thing will look like, and each person has a different opinion.” PeopleLooksPersonsDifferentSometimesUseActorsOpinionToo MuchBlueScreensCredibleDifferent Opinions Author:Michel Gondry
“I read about some movie where they did everything on blue screen, and the actors were not even connecting to each other.” ActorsBlueScreensConnecting Author:Michel Gondry
“I'm not a great fan of green screen. It's not much fun for actors. It's great for directors and technical people and cameramen.” PeopleActorsFunFansDirectorsGreenScreensCameramanGreat Fans Author:Dominic West