“An actor definitely has to be in the past a well as the present; an actor must react to past experiences every minute, every second.” WellsPastActorsMinutesEvery SecondPast Experiences Author:Anjelica Huston
“In my collection, to me at least, the theatre of the past lives again and those long-dead playwrights and actors have in me an enthralled audience of one, and I applaud them across the centuries.” LongPastActorsAudienceCenturyTheatreCollectionsPlaywrightPast LifeAudience Of One Book:Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading Source: Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading
“A couple of clues came my way of what I might be getting myself into when I sat down with a number of actors who had played Richard III in the past. And I was hoping of course, that one of them or all of them were gonna give me the magic key, the secret way in to play Richard III but none of them did that.But every one of them did say the following, "Be careful."” WayGivingPlayMightPastCoursesActorsNumbersSecretMagicKeysCoupleGive MeCarefulFollowingMy WaySatBe CarefulClue Author:Kevin Spacey
“In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second.” IfsPastActorsFoolTheaterScreens Author:Gloria Swanson
“I think you have to be very secure as an actor to escape yourself - to revisit someones past, whether youre portraying another person or creating someone, and then to come back to who you are and not bring those emotions with you.” ThinkingPersonsPastActorsEmotionCreatingWho You AreSecurePortraying Author:Alex Pettyfer
“But as an actor you do want to challenge yourself and step outside what you have done in the past and that what I like to do, I like to jump around and try different things and stretch myself.” WantTryingDifferentDonePastActorsChallengesStepsDifferent ThingsChallenge Yourself Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead
“Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to mean anything until the subject is dead. This is the whole point. We're doing this to create a kind of sentimental past for people in decades to come. It's their past, their history we're inventing here. And it's not how I look now that matters. It's how I'll look in twenty-five years as clothing and faces change, as photographs change. The deeper I pass into death, the more powerful my picture becomes. Isn't this why picture-taking is so ceremonial? It's like a wake. And I'm the actor made up for the laying-out.” PeopleYearsLooksKindMeanMadeMatterWholePastFacesActorsPowerfulFiveSubjectsSittingTwentiesPhotographDeeperDecadesFive YearsClothingsPortraitsSentimentalInventingTwenty FiveMorbidPicture Taking Book:Mao II Source: Mao II