“Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by passages. And who has greater reason to rejoice in this than actors, since the stage is ever but a patched and piecemeal matter?” MatterReasonWholeActorsNationsActingGreaterModernStagePraiseBlamePassagesRejoiceCharmed Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If you're playing a cop in a modern film, you don't have to walk with your spine straight up and bow before a fight. There's a lot of free form of expressing yourself as an actor.” IfsFilmFormFightingActorsWalksModernBowsCopExpress YourselfSpineStraight Up Author:Donnie Yen
“It's fashionable for modern actors to talk about getting 'inside' a character. But you can't get to the inside without getting the outside right first.” FirstsCharacterActorsModernFashionable Author:Charlton Heston
“I began to think that the finest modern writer was the screen actor. This was in the spirit of the Fifties where a very antiliterary literature was emerging - Kenneth Patchen and others. I kind of believed what Nietzsche said, that nothing not written in your blood is worth reading; it's just more pollution of the airwaves.” ThinkingKindSaidSpiritReadingActorsLiteratureWrittenBloodModernScreensPollutionFinestEmergingWorth ReadingKenneth Author:Jack Nicholson
“My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor. I am passionate about acting. Girls in our family are not allowed to act is quite an outdated thought to have. They did it till my mother but now no more.” PersonsFactsMotherGirlActorsFatherParentActingModernPassionateActressesOur FamilyOutdated Author:Kareena Kapoor
“The West has never been all of the world that matters. The West has not been the only actor on the stage of modern history even at the peak of the West's power (and this peak has perhaps now already been passed)... It has not been the West that has been hit by the world; it has been the world that has been hit - and hit hard - by the West.” WorldHas BeensMatterHardActorsModernStageWestModern History Author:Arnold J. Toynbee
“Having been an actor, I always want to leave room for the actors to find their comfort zone, so I don't like to be too rigid in how I plan my shots. It's different if you have weeks to rehearse and you can rehearse on your sets or in your locations and you can plan that out with your actors, but in modern independent filmmaking, you don't really have that time. You have to have a certain level of improvisation.” IfsWantDifferentCertainActorsLevelsRoomsPlansWeekModernComfortShotsIndependentZoneFilmmakingLocationComfort ZoneImprovisationIndependent Filmmaking Author:Eric Balfour
“A large part of how an actor works and their process is the stimulation of what's around you, and none more so than in a period piece. This is a modern piece, as much as it is set in a different time, age and myth. If it wasn't relevant, it wouldn't have been made and we wouldn't be putting our energy into it. It's relevant for us today because, in some ways, it throws up a mirror to all of us. As an actor, you get stimulus and you're effected by that, whether it's costumes or funny beards or castles.” IfsWayHas BeensMadeDifferentAgeTodayActorsEnergyProcessPiecesModernPeriodsMirrorsMythRelevantCostumesCastlesBeardStimulusDifferent TimesStimulation Author:Joseph Fiennes