“What I have always found most beautiful in the theatre, in my childhood, and still today, is lustre--a beautiful object, luminous, crystalline, complex, circular, symmetrical. However, I do not absolutely deny the value of dramatic literature. Only, I should like the actors to be mounted on high pattens, to wear masks more expressive than the human face, and to speak through megaphones.” ShouldHumansStillsTodayBeautifulFacesValuesActorsFoundLiteratureSpeakChildhoodObjectsComplexesDenyTheatreDramaticMaskLuminousExpressiveHuman FacesSymmetricalBeautiful Objects Book:Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry Source: Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry
“First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space. It's an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That's what directing is.” WorldFirstsIdeasActorsTermSpaceObjectsPersonalityFlowImaginaryRepresentation Author:Abraham Polonsky
“If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.” IfsJobsActorsTalkingOne ThingObjectsTough Author:Kevin Spacey
“Writers and painters have a medium that can foster self-effacements. Actors haven't. An actor can't hide himself behind paper or canvas. If you're not there your art's not there. That's why we actors are often such self-centered objects.” IfsArtSelfActorsBehindsHavensObjectsPaperMediumsPainterCanvasSelf Centered Author:Elizabeth Goudge
“A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.” ArtArtistActorsStarsObjectsMovieMovie Star Author:Richard Schickel
“He wouldn't talk to me for two months. I was like, 'What an ass**le.' Actors are used to getting their way and to treating women like objects. "[on Wesley Snipes after she reports he made unreturned passes at her]” WayMadeTwoUsedActorsObjectsMonthsAssReportsTalk To MeTwo Months Author:Jennifer Lopez
“I never know what to call the subjects in my pictures because I'm uncomfortable with the word actor. I think maybe subjects might be more accurate - or maybe even more accurate is objects.” ThinkingKnowsMightActorsSubjectsObjectsUncomfortableAccurate Author:Gregory Crewdson