“Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.” WritingAbleActorsPercentTwentiesCamerasSpotsExecutionEightyGood Actors Author:Billy Wilder
“If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.” IfsGivingRealityYoungActorsResultsAdvicePercentScriptsAuditionsScrapYoung Actors Author:Wallace Shawn
“Sometimes an actor doesn't sell an idea 100 percent. It just sounds like something that's coming out of their head. You can hear the gears whirring and they're trying to think of what the smart approach is to getting a line across.” ThinkingTryingIdeasSometimesActorsSoundLinesApproachSmartPercentSellsComing OutGearsLike Something Author:David Gordon Green
“Because 98 percent of our ideas are not great ideas, or everyone would be a billionaire. So yeah. That's something people have had a lot of experience in: being told our idea is bad or our performance is bad. I think that's the one common thread between all working actors is that they have a pretty thick skin - or you'd like to hope. You're used to rejection, that's for sure.” PeopleThinkingIdeasWould BeUsedActorsCommonPercentSkinsPerformancesYeahRejectionThickThreadGreat IdeaBillionaireThick SkinCommon Threads Author:Dax Shepard
“I am not a politician going around bragging about family values or putting myself on some ridiculous virtuous pedestal. I write comedy. And I am an actor. I am not going to solve the nation's problems. I don't actually spend my life in the way the tabloids like to think I do. I actually spend 95 percent of it writing comedy. Sober. Well, nearly sober anyway.” ThinkingWayWritingWellsProblemValuesActorsNationsComedyPoliticianPercentSolveRidiculousVirtuousSoberBraggingTabloidsPedestalAbout FamilyFamily ValuesWriting Comedy Author:Steve Coogan
“A good actor is like a racehorse or a Ferrari. If a cylinder is missing on a Chevy, it's doesn't matter that much. But if something's not working right on a Ferrari, it makes a big difference. It's the three percent that makes the difference between good and great. It's a fine line. If you're not there, it's very painful.” IfsMatterBigsThreeActorsDifferencesLinesMissingFinePercentPainfulGood ActorsFine LinesFerrariChevyCylindersRacehorses Author:Christopher Walken
“My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He's from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me down and say, 'You know, 99 percent of actors are out of work. You've been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?'” KnowsMenWantUsedActorsFatherStrongClassBecomingPercentDown AndEducatedPretendingWorking ClassScottishPresbyteriansPretending To Be Someone Else Author:Tom Hiddleston
“When an actor is offered a role, more often than not - maybe 90 percent of the time - you read it and you say, "I'll take it."” ActorsRolesPercent Author:Richard Kind
“I had interest in acting. I started as a drama major in college. I got to school and said, "What am I going to do with this?" But I didn't know anybody in the business, and it seemed like - I don't know. I had a teacher who said "Less than 1 percent of you will ever make a living being an actor." That was how we opened the semester.” KnowsSaidSchoolActorsInterestActingTeacherCollegeDramaMajorsPercentSemester Author:Greg Kinnear
“I'm in a very lucky position. You have to remember that 95 percent of all actors aren't working. I'm actually able to go to France and work. It's a situation I couldn't have dreamt up.” AbleRememberActorsSituationPositionLuckyPercentFranceWorking It Author:Mads Mikkelsen
“I'm not a method actor, I don't write my character's history or all those kinds of things. I'm more about the 90 percent of the brain that is subconscious. I like to just pick certain pieces, let it soak in, and then let it kind of emerge out.” WritingKindCharacterCertainActorsBrainPiecesPicksPercentMethodSubconscious Author:Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
“I understand the opposite side of the camera. I have a profound respect for that. I have worked with people who, when you hit that mark, are doing 50 percent of your work for you. So, you know, it's a balance. When you walk into a mark and you're lit a certain way or something's happening so often you don't know what's behind you... And that's what's so strange about being a movie actor.” PeopleKnowsWayCertainActorsSidesWalksBehindsStrangeBalanceHappeningsPercentOppositesMarkCamerasProfoundLitBehind YouMovie Actors Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“Film acting would be about 80 percent better than it has been lately if actors did their homework, if they didn't have egos that took the size of their talent for granted.” IfsHas BeensWould BeFilmActorsActingTalentEgoPercentSizeGrantedHomeworkFilm Acting Author:Rod Steiger
“As an actor, I function from a place of compassion and empathy - you have to believe 100 percent what your character is doing, because otherwise it will look like it's not real.” BelieveLooksRealCharacterActorsCompassionEmpathyPercentFunctionCompassion And Empathy Author:Clare Bowen
“Most actors don't understand acting. I think it's an art form that craft is out the window. I don't think people get it at all, most of the time. Or they get some of it, not all of it. If you get an Academy Award nomination, you think 95 percent of the profession is unemployed at any given time, most people will never even find work as an actor, and the ones who do will probably make $50,000 a year at the most if they're lucky. Some will never do Broadway. Some will never do a major role. And a really, really, really small percentage of them maybe will be nominated for a major award.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsArtFormActorsGivenActingRolesLuckyMajorsPercentWindowProfessionCraftsAwardsBroadwayPercentagesAcademyUnemployedNominationsAcademy Awards Author:Viola Davis
“Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.” ActorsPercentPreparationNinety Author:William H. Macy
“I came out wanting to be an actor. From my first view of the world, that's what I wanted to be. I'm made of 99 percent ham and 1 percent water. I was just cooked that way!” WorldWayFirstsMadeWantedActorsWaterViewsPercentHam Author:Mike Myers
“Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.” IfsYearsShowsFilmActorsSuccessfulTvsPercentProfessionChosenTv ShowsThings You Love Author:Christina Ricci