“I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their ordinariness, their beer and football-loving commitments.” MenI CanActorsForeverFootballHe ManCommitmentStressBeerInterviewsPredictableOrdinariness Author:Peter York
“I don't think a lot of people really understand the commitment it takes to being a character that an actor in Hollywood would take to approaching a role that they're doing.” PeopleThinkingCharacterActorsRolesCommitmentHollywood Author:Misty Copeland
“As an actor on sets, Ive always clocked how hard the crew works, how much longer their days are, how much lesser their glory is - and the fact that their commitment to the work and project is unwavering, no matter the budget.” MatterHardFactsActorsProjectsGloryCommitmentBudgetsCrewUnwavering Author:Jennifer Westfeldt
“To make a great movie is such a combination of different things that need to come into play to actually make a memorable film and not have a film to fall by the wayside, to have something live on during the years, and one of those elements is the commitment the actors have to their performance.” NeedsYearsDifferentPlayFilmFallActorsElementsCommitmentPerformancesCombinationMemorableDifferent Things Author:Edward Zwick
“The big thing for actors is the level of commitment. So, if you know something's already happened, there's not a whole lot of whys and hows that go down. You just innately commit 'cause it happened. It does help with commitment.” IfsKnowsDoeWholeHelpingBigsActorsCausesLevelsHappenedCommitmentCommitBig Things Author:Shia LaBeouf
“Well, actors get very frustrated with giving control to other people. They have their own ideas and wants for their characters. Warren Beatty once told me that he thought actors ended up directing out of frustration. If you have a strong sense of how to communicate a film, you should direct. The problem is that it is a huge commitment. I'd rather direct a play than a film due to the time. A movie can tie you up for a year or more.” PeopleIfsWantGivingShouldYearsWellsIdeasPlayCharacterProblemFilmActorsStrongHugeCommitmentDirectCommunicateDuesTiesMovieFrustrationFrustratedBeatty Author:Alec Baldwin
“Actors can make five movies a year. A director can make one movie, every two years. It's a whole different level of commitment and of sweat equity, and therefore there's a direct correlation to passion.” YearsTwoDifferentWholePassionActorsLevelsFiveDirectorsCommitmentDirectTwo YearsSweatEquityDifferent LevelsCorrelation Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol
“I'm very happy where I am, with the comradery with the incredible actors, producers and writers [of The Strain]. I am ready and very excited to work here. There is a potential here. Even though survival here is hard, work is hard and commitment is harder, the potential for where you can go can bring you further. This is the country that is possible. That's not possible in Europe.” CountryHardActorsReadyHard WorkSurvivalCommitmentEuropeHarderIncrediblesExcitedProducersVery HappyStrainComradery Author:Richard Sammel
“When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story, the story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I'm struggling with - my own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.” KindPersonsI CanPlayStoriesActorsTermMy OwnStruggleJourneyDirectorsCommitmentFilmmakerOscarsMy Own LifeMy JourneyWildeSalome Author:Al Pacino
“The big thing for actors is the level of commitment.” BigsActorsLevelsCommitmentBig Things Author:Shia LaBeouf
“I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream...he realizes that he's gone just about as far as talent or fortune will take him. The dream will not happen, and he now faces the choice of accepting this fact like a grownup and moving on to more sensible pursuits, or refusing the truth and ending up bitter, quarrelsome, and slightly pathetic.” WayInspirationalFeelsYearsFactsFeelingsDreamHappensFacesMovingChoicesActorsRealizingAcceptingGoneImagineTalentParticularCommitmentFortuneAthletePursuitBitterSensiblePatheticGrownupsPersonal LeadershipAudacity Of Hope Author:Barack Obama
“It wasn't as though I really made a commitment to it; there wasn't anything else around. So I wasn't driven to become an actor.. it just seemed to be the thing that I managed to do best.” MadeActorsCommitmentDriven Author:Paul Newman
“I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.” ThinkingShouldActorsSituationComedyDramaCommitmentAbsurd Author:Peter Billingsley