“For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy thing to do.” IfsActorsEasyRecordsStageThings To DoClimbingBroadwayEasy ThingsTacklingStage Actors Author:Jeremy Piven
“The big challenge for me was just trying to ignore the embarrassment of being an actor. It's a pretty embarrassing thing to do. You've got people pointing cameras at you and hundreds of people watching you, as you're trying to be great. And often, almost every time, you're not.” PeopleTryingBigsActorsChallengesCamerasThings To DoEmbarrassingPointingEmbarrassmentBig Challenges Author:Chris Pratt
“Show business is like riding a bicycle - when you fall off, the best thing to do is get up, brush yourself off and get back on again.” ShowsFallActorsGet UpBest ThingsThings To DoGet BackRidingBrushesShow BusinessBicycleRiding A Bicycle Book:It's Always Something Source: It's Always Something
“I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.” PeopleActorsEnjoyHardestComicDramaticThings To DoHardest ThingRatiosComedicHardest Thing To Do Author:Charles Grodin
“I think that for a lot of actors - especially American actors - to get line readings and to be told and have your director literally act out the part for you is sort of discouraging in a way. It's a very Eastern European thing to do - a lot of directors that I worked with in Russia did that as well. And, I never took that as an insult, as many actors tend to do. To me, I think it's just offering a certain energy - offering their flavor - and, instead of trying to sort of decode and communicate it to you, they just show you their flavor of what it should be.” ThinkingWayShouldTryingWellsShowsCertainReadingActorsEnergyLinesDirectorsCommunicateRussiaThings To DoInsultOfferingFlavorEasternDiscouraging Author:Jon Bernthal
“It always seemed to me like it was a significant thing to do with one's life to be an actor 'cause I love movies and I felt like, not to be grandiose about it, but there is something important about film with the function it provides to general society.” ImportantFilmActorsFeltCausesFunctionSignificantThings To DoMovie LoveGrandioseSignificant Things Author:Charlie Hunnam