“When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors.” YearsKidsActorsCompanyWeekNeededMetsMembersTheaterTowns Author:Trevor Nunn
“My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me.” TwoFilmMotherActorsFatherSawsFourWeekGrandfatherMy GrandfatherBegging Author:Giovanni Ribisi
“I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.” GivingMotherActorsFourWeekSummerDaughterSillyNineMovieTurned DownVancouverSilly Movie Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“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
“Most theater methodology is predicated on the idea of repeated actions. That's what you work toward. Having the actor repeat the same moment eight times a week. In a film, it's getting that one moment right.” IdeasMomentsActionFilmActorsWeekTheaterEightRepeatsMethodology Author:Stephen Daldry
“You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of all, there's this whole thing about playing sitcom comedy. I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. I went slowly. We went through the week of rehearsal, then we got on the floor with the cameras, which I'm used to because of my experience in the old days. Then came camera day, with an audience, and it was stunning, enthralling, exciting and chaotic. I had never experienced anything like that before, as an actor. I was part minstrel, part actor.” KnowsWantFirstsWholeUsedActorsAudienceComedyImagineWeekFirst TimeExcitingCamerasShockRehearsalChaoticOld DaysSitcomStunningMinstrels Author:William Shatner
“If you're a serious actor, you wouldn't put yourself up for one of those shows in case you got bumped off the first week and all your colleagues saw it.” IfsFirstsShowsActorsCasesSawsWeekSeriousColleagues Author:Elaine Paige
“Character actors just pile up the credits because you work on a movie for like a few days. It's not like I'm the lead in everything I do - far from it. I'm not spending three or four months on a picture; I'm spending three or four weeks. Sometimes three or four days.” SometimesCharacterThreeActorsFourWeekMonthsCreditSpendingLead InCharacter Actors Author:Steve Buscemi
“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
“Im not the kind of actor that can go completely cold into an emotional scene. I have to transport myself emotionally by whatever means possible, and that basically means you carry the situation with you all week, all episode or all day beforehand.” KindMeanActorsSituationWeekEmotionalColdSceneEpisodesTransport Author:Jamie Bamber
“I'm less confident now than I've ever been. In this peculiar craft, confidence is something you spend a lifetime losing. I used to be frightened only one night a week but now I'm frightened of every performance. I mean really frightened.” MeanUsedNightActorsWeekLosingPerformancesLifetimeUsed To BeCraftsFrightenedPeculiarOne Night Author:Glenda Jackson
“I'll tell you what I think in general about people who want to make their Broadway debut that are not trained stage actors. Don't they know, Broadway ain't for sissies? It is a tough gig. You are responsible, physically, mentally, emotionally, for eight shows a week, at the top of your game. It's not easy.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantShowsActorsGamesEasyWeekStageToughResponsibleEightBroadwayGigsDebutSissyStage Actors Author:Patti LuPone
“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