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“I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.”

World Actors Acting Sea Elements Bizarre

Author:Sam Neill

“The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.”

Littles Actors Process Information Elements

Author:Danny Strong

“I'm always in the elements, it seems like it's pouring rain on me a lot and there's crowds of people pushing me around, and it feels very real. Which is great as a actor, you don't have to come up with too much of it. I'm always amazed.”

People Feels Real Seems Actors Too Much Elements Rain Come Up Crowds Pushing Amazed Pouring Pouring Rain

Author:Charlie Day

“In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.”

Play Character Hate Actors Elements

Author:Janet Montgomery

“I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life.”

Feels Actors Strange Elements Fishes Aliens Swimming

Book:Last letters to a friend, 1952-1958

Source: Last letters to a friend, 1952-1958

“every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.”

Knows Actors Comedy Depends Elements Tragedy Surprise Hardest Inevitable Linear Element Of Surprise

Book:Saturday's Child: A Memoir

Source: Saturday's Child: A Memoir

“The word 'ego' is very important. The ego is an important element of being human, and of being creative. We need that ego in order to give us a confidence of doing what we're doing. Ego pushes us into the creative world in order to create for something more. I think that a great company of actors, they all have egos, very strong egos, but they're all prepared to share together in order to achieve something even better than that.”

Thinking World Needs Giving Humans Important Together Order Actors Strong Company Creative Share Achieve Ego Elements Prepared Very Strong Being Human Be Creative Great Company

Author:George Ogilvie

“Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music and camera and putting it all together. And that can be fun and exciting. If you fail, it's incredibly upsetting - much more upsetting than when you're an actor. But when you succeed it's incredibly, incredibly exciting, so I like the risk of it all.”

Ifs Together Film Actors Fun Sound Acting Failing Risk Succeed Elements Exciting Cameras Painter Upset Sound And Music Film Directing

Author:George Clooney

“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.”

Way Want Writing Firsts Persons Book Different Actors Stage Materials Elements Thirds Bigger Dramatic Pulling Presentation First Person Third Person

Author:Brian Greene

“Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.”

Needs Actors Imagination Elements Tools Observation Primaries

Author:Stephen Lang

“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.”

Needs Years Different Play Film Fall Actors Elements Commitment Performances Combination Memorable Different Things

Author:Edward Zwick

“Exercise is an important element of being an actor, on any level.”

Important Actors Levels Exercise Elements

Author:Zachary Quinto

“What I do is interpret, not create. I may add elements and do something different. That is what is so incredible about theatre. Why do we love it that there are nine Hamletsor six King Lears over two years? We love to watch a different actor attack the same material.”

Years May Two Different Actors Watches Materials Kings Elements Six Add Incredibles Theatre Nine Two Years Lear

Author:Kevin Spacey

“It is one of the few elements in the process that a director really, really can't control: an actor's performance. If you have a director that understands that, it's comforting to an actor. You're starting the relationship more as a collaborator, rather than as an employee or some kind of a soldier trying to execute something you don't organically feel.”

Ifs Feels Trying Kind Actors Process Directors Elements Performances Starting Soldier Employee Comforting Collaborators

Author:Jason Bateman

“This is one of the things I don't like so much about French cinema - we have tendency to concentrate on actors and dialogue and we don't care so much about the visual aspect. I love when you use all the elements at your disposal.”

Use Care Actors Elements Aspect Don't Care Dialogue Tendencies Cinema Visuals French Cinema

Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet

“I felt a gravitational pull to the material so that there's a certain element of acting that's not really necessary. I've really liked this in foreign movies before or I've observed others working with them and I've noticed that there's a method that goes on where the actors try and get the children, like the child actor, to interact with them in a real way. It seems like you're the adult trying to get the kid to fall in love with him.”

Way Trying Children Real Seems Kids Certain Fall Actors Felt Acting Materials Like You Goes On Elements Adults Method Falling In Love Child Actors

Author:Brendan Fraser

“The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.”

Mind Actors Boys Baby Elements Possessed Popularity Disgrace Theatrical Good Actors Hallucinations

Book:Life of Mrs. Siddons

Source: Life of Mrs. Siddons

“I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.”

Actors Taste Elements Likes Jumping Good Taste

Author:Luke Ford

“When I'm trying to imagine something, I have a few elements, a few ideas, maybe a certain actor or actress I want to create a certain type of character for, or maybe a certain place.”

Want Trying Ideas Character Certain Actors Imagine Type Elements Actresses

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“You never know when you're taking a job, ever... but you try to take good scripts. That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available. Even then, it's not [really] in your control. Certainly not in film and TV, because there are so many other elements. You just have to take control of your own performance.”

Knows Trying Jobs Film Actors Can Do Tvs Elements Performances Scripts Available Best Things Take Control

Author:Damian Lewis

“Snow Cake is a lovely film. Really proud of that. We shot it in 21 days. I thought Sigourney was amazing in it. And very, very accurate. I think there was some element that thought she had pushed it too far. But not at all when you do the amount of homework she had done and spent the amount of time she did with adult autistics. She was right on the money. And I think Marc Evans is a terrific director. He's a sweet, open, honest man and a really good director of actors.”

Thinking Men Done Film Actors Honest Sweet Amount Proud Directors Elements Shots Adults Lovely Snow Cake Accurate Terrific Homework Honest Man Good Directors

Author:Alan Rickman

“In the theater, actors are the essential element of the work. In a film, it's a real collaboration - not that theater isn't, because it is - but it's a collaboration to such an extent that you can give a performance in film that sometimes you look at and you go, "Well, that's not the performance I was trying to give at all."”

Giving Trying Wells Looks Real Sometimes Film Actors Essentials Elements Performances Theater Collaboration

Author:Karen Allen

“The first thing that happens is the cleansing of the former character. I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there is usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character played prior to the movie. Then you want to think about what the character represents, and you write down all of the elements about this character and then take the time to find some synchronicity and start breathing the character.”

Thinking Want Writing Firsts Character Happens Actors Process Elements Former Breathing Synchronicity Cleansing

Author:Vin Diesel

“Sometimes people come in as a director, and they just want the result, and they barely want that to tell you the truth. Sometimes directors barely talk to the actors; they are so focused on the cinematic elements of the movie, getting the shot and getting the lighting right or getting the CGI effects right and all of that, and they just trust that you are just going to do what you do.”

People Want Sometimes Actors Results Effects Directors Elements Shots Focused Lighting Cinematic Cgi

Author:Viola Davis

“There was one element of my childhood that was really a positive asset for me. By moving a lot, I learned to assimilate into whatever new surroundings I had and to become very comfortable with people quickly. I think that was one of the strongest contributing factors to my becoming an actor, because I constantly had to readjust, even reinvent. But at the same time, it also became very easy for me not to become attached to people, places, or things. I learned to enjoy people and places for the time I had, for the moment, to be in the moment, and move on.”

People Thinking Moments Moving Actors Easy Enjoy Childhood Becoming Elements Comfortable Factors Strongest Assets Surroundings Contributing

Author:Demi Moore

“From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.”

Action Film Actors Directors Elements Producers Makers Dynamics Choreographers

Author:Donnie Yen

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