“If the audience knows what's behind the door and the actor does not, that's comedy. If both the audience and the actor do not know, that's mystery!” IfsKnowsDoeActorsBehindsAudienceComedyDoorsMystery Author:Melvin Helitzer
“Uta Hagen is our greatest living actor; she is, moreover, interested and mystified by the presence of talent and its workings; her third gift is a passion to communicate the mysteries of the craft to which she has given her life. There are almost no American actors uninfluenced by her.” PassionActorsGivenMysteryTalentThirdsCommunicateCrafts Author:Fritz Weaver
“How you prepare for a role is entirely your business in my point of view. There is little enough mystery anymore left in the world in the part of our profession, which should be clouded in mystery because it isn't in the public. You don't want the magician to show his tricks or how he did them do you? So I do think that is a very private thing that we actors should protect ourselves from.” ThinkingWorldWantShouldLittlesEnoughShowsActorsLeftViewsRolesMysteryProtectPoint Of ViewProfessionTricksMagicianCloudedPrivate Things Author:Christopher Plummer
“As an actor, you've got to maintain a bit of mystery and at least part of your private life, otherwise the game is up.” ActorsGamesBitsMysteryPrivate Life Author:Max Beesley
“When you're training as an actor, a lot of the big work you're learning is to treat fictional characters like real people. You don't have the problem of discovering a backstory with real people, but there's always a mystery which is common to both fictional and factual characters. They are never quite the person you think they are.” PeopleThinkingPersonsRealCharacterProblemBigsActorsCommonMysteryTrainingTreatsDiscoveringNever QuitFactualFictional Character Author:Toby Jones
“As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.” RealActorsLosesMysteryMinutesInterviews Author:Shia LaBeouf
“TO ALL THE ambulance drivers firewatchers air-raid wardens nurses canteen workers airplane spotters rescue workers mathematicians vicars vergers shopgirls chorus girls librarians debutantes spinsters fishermen retired sailors servants evacuees Shakespearean actors and mystery novelists WHO WON THE WAR.” WarGirlActorsAirMysteryWorkersServantNovelistsDriversNurseAirplaneRescueMathematicianRetiredLibrarianSailorChorusFishermanAmbulanceSpinstersWardensVicarsCanteenDebutantes Author:Connie Willis
“Mystery makes movie stars! If you see someone on the cover of the weeklies all the time, why would you want to pay to see them in a movie?” IfsWantActorsStarsPayMysteryMovieMovie Star Author:Sophia Bush