“Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns. For she, says Bion, just like a poet, sometimes assigns the leading role, sometimes that of the supporting role; sometimes that of a king, sometimes that of a beggar. Do not, therefore, being a supporting actor, desire the role of the lead.” MenWellsSometimesDesireActorsRolesPoetKingsFortuneGood ManBeggarGood ActorsSupporting RolesSupporting Actors Author:Bion of Borysthenes
“After the first one [Twilight], people started referring to it as a franchise, but a franchise is a Burger King or a Subway. It's not a movie. The people who start to say it are generally the people who are making money off of it. They love it when something becomes a franchise. But, as an actor, I think it's scary.” PeopleThinkingFirstsActorsKingsScaryMaking MoneyTwilightSubwayReferringBurgersBurger King Author:Robert Pattinson
“As actors, we have the opportunity to work with many directors. Directors only work with themselves and other actors. They never know what it is like to work with another director. So that relationship that one has with a director is entirely always the king.” KnowsActorsOpportunityKingsDirectors Author:Tom Hardy
“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.” YearsMayTwoDifferentActorsWatchesMaterialsKingsElementsSixAddIncrediblesTheatreNineTwo YearsLear Author:Kevin Spacey
“When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked to who's ever played a major, major Shakespeare role has done this.” DoneThreeActorsRolesWeekKingsPeriodsMajorsLear Author:Frank Langella
“King Arthur is profoundly stupid and inept.. then there's Clive Owen, rising above it all. Aloof yet watchful, the actor cultivates an inner stillness that is perfect for faintly ironic brooders. He neither distances himself from this risible material nor pulls out the stops and opens himself to ridicule. His King Arthur tells us little about Arthur, but much about protecting one's flank. The mark of a box-office king?” LittlesActorsPerfectStupidMaterialsKingsOfficeMarkDistanceBoxesRisingIronicStillnessRidiculeRise AboveArthurBox OfficeAloofKing Arthur Author:David Edelstein
“I hope that audiences respond really positively. I think it's a very intense, entertaining film [The Last King of Scotland], because you're brought in on a fun ride, and slowly you fall into it as James [actor James McAvoy's character, Dr. Nicholas Garrigan] does. Nicholas is like the audience. I think it's a good ride for people. And you learn something, as well.” PeopleThinkingWellsDoeCharacterLastsFilmFallActorsFunAudienceKingsIntenseEntertainingDrsScotlandPositively Author:Forest Whitaker
“I made a picture called Super Mario Bros., and my six-year-old son at the time - he's now 18 - he said, 'Dad I think you're probably a pretty good actor, but why did you play that terrible guy King Koopa in Super Mario Bros?' And I said, 'Well Henry, I did that so you could have shoes,' and he said, 'Dad, I don't need shoes that badly.'” ThinkingNeedsYearsWellsMadeSaidPlayGuyActorsSonKingsDadTerribleSixShoesGood ActorsSix Year OldsBrosMarioSuper Mario Author:Dennis Hopper
“After the first one [Twilight Saga movie], as soon as people start referring to something as a franchise. A franchise is a Burger King or a Subway. It's not a movie. The people who start to say it are generally the people who are making money off of it. That's how they refer to it. They love it when something has become a franchise. But, as an actor, I think it's scary.” PeopleThinkingFirstsActorsKingsScaryMaking MoneyTwilightSubwayReferringBurgersSagaBurger King Author:Robert Pattinson
“Actors make a bunch of money and they are superstars and then all of a sudden they are 35 and they are an old man and then you never hear from them again. So they basically live like a king for a decade and then they are done.” MenDoneActorsKingsDecadesBunchOld ManSuperstar Author:Mehcad Brooks
“I did my first movie, "The Mambo Kings," in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.” FirstsAmericaActorsLanguageLinesKingsDirectorsMovieInterpreter Author:Antonio Banderas
“The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.” WantPlayActorsKingsAppearanceSuitableLear Book:The Art of the Theatre Source: The Art of the Theatre
“We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he's playing himself in his daily life, he's playing a part, he's performing, just as he's performing when he plays a part on stage.” KnowsPlaySeemsActorsStageKingsPerformingDaily LifeWizards Author:Wallace Shawn