“This sounds so bogus, but I would love to, at some point when my kids are in college, is just go do a whole season at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and do a year of plays. Most actors miss the days of live theater.” YearsPlayWholeKidsActorsSoundMissingCollegeSeasonsTheaterFestivalsOregonLive Theater Author:Donal Logue
“Its such a process to get a show off the ground initially. And then, to already have a second season announced is a dream come true for any actor.” ShowsDreamActorsProcessSeasonsDreams Come TrueShowing Off Author:Nicky Whelan
“When youre the lead actor in a drama, you have 2 1/2 months at the end of a season to do other projects, and everything has to get done in that time.” EndsDoneActorsMonthsDramaProjectsSeasons Author:Melina Kanakaredes
“The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who have appeared in or been responsible for successful plays, who have given outstanding performances, can still, in the full tide of their energy, be forced, through lack of opportunity, to sit idle season after season, their enthusiasm, their morale, their very talent dwindling to slow gray death. Of finances we will not even speak; it is too sad a tale.” PeopleStillsPlayActorsOpportunityEnergySpeakGivenActingSuccessfulTalentPerformancesSeasonsTheaterResponsibleTalesFinanceEnthusiasmGrayTidesIdleProvenWagesOutstandingMoraleOutstanding Performance Book:Past imperfect Source: Past imperfect
“There have been two [career highlights]. Waking up in New York to hear I'd been nominated for Best Actor for a Tony Award on Broadway, for An Ideal Husband. The other one was waking up the morning after the opening night of A Man For All Seasons and reading the reviews.” MenHas BeensTwoNightReadingActorsCareersMorningNew YorkHusbandIdealsSeasonsWake UpOpeningAwardsReviewsWakingBroadwayHighlightsMorning AfterIdeal HusbandOpening Night Author:Martin Shaw
“('Mad Men') was my final audition of the pilot season. It had been three miserable, horrible months where I had zero callbacks, zero positive reception, one of those pilot seasons that makes you pretty sure you are never going to be an actor and never want to be an actor. And then that happened.” MenWantThreeActorsHappenedMonthsSeasonsMadFinalsHorribleMiserableZeroPilotsAuditionsReceptionMad MenCallbacks Author:Rich Sommer
“It's really interesting, for an actor, that you can continue to do season after season and not play the same role.” PlayActorsInterestingRolesSeasonsReally Interesting Author:Mark Consuelos
“As an actor, you always want to try new things, so the fact that they set it up so that you can be doing different things each season is great.” WantTryingDifferentFactsActorsSeasonsDifferent ThingsNew Things Author:Mark Consuelos
“We're big fans of the show on BBC, and some of the greatest actors in film and television have done this character, from Basil Rathbone to Nicol Williamson to Michael Caine. (Executive producer) Rob Doherty came in with the pitch last season, it was immediately a show that we gravitated towards.” DoneCharacterShowsBigsLastsFilmActorsFansTelevisionSeasonsProducersExecutivesFilm And TelevisionBasil Author:Nina Tassler
“As the actors on the show we rarely get an opportunity to, as I said we get the scripts the night before but we have great producers on this show, so every once and a while matt or mike will say "I want to take the character in a different direction this season, what do you think about this?" and we do sort of get to add to it and feed it.” ThinkingWantSaidDifferentCharacterShowsNightActorsOpportunitySeasonsAddScriptsProducersMikeDifferent Directions Author:Rachael MacFarlane
“We try to make each situation specific to the person. At the beginning of the season, we come up with, like, 50 to 100 ideas, which we workshop and then we call around to see who is interested in doing something like that. Once we find the people, we make the bid specific to them. A lot of it is about where you can get people to go physically, which is a little tricky because most actors and musicians are kind of hermits-they like to stay in their houses.” PeopleTryingKindLittlesPersonsIdeasActorsHouseSituationMusicianSeasonsCome UpTrickyWorkshopsHermits Author:Ashton Kutcher
“I'm not looking for a series. I love TV. I love developing characters over a long amount of time. I think for an actor it gives you so much material and every season it gives more background and interest and richness. So I would definitely do another series. I'm just waiting for the right thing to come along.” ThinkingGivingLongCharacterActorsWaitingInterestMaterialsTvsAmountSeasonsSeriesBackgroundsDevelopingRight ThingRichness Author:Christina Hendricks
“I was very familiar with both actors, as well as Christina Hendricks and Bill Sage, Jimmi Simpson, Polly McIntosh, but the other main actors were new to me. And they were all terrific. Just amazing. Actually, Lowell Northrop optioned Savage Season from me, first book in the series, and I wrote a screenplay.” FirstsWellsBookActorsSeasonsBillsSeriesFamiliarSavagesSageTerrificScreenplaysChristina Author:Joe R. Lansdale
“The second season is generally easier do because you know the actors better and they know the characters better and if everybody likes each other you can really go all types of places.” IfsKnowsCharacterActorsTypeEasierSeasonsLikes Author:Denis Leary
“I was working with Peter Tolan, who was my writing partner on those two [Rescue Me and The Job], and he did The Larry Sanders Show with Garry Shandling, and he always said that the second season is better because you know the actors.” KnowsWritingSaidTwoShowsJobsActorsSeasonsPartnersPeterRescueLarryRescue Me Author:Denis Leary
“New Kids on the Block are on season two [Full House ], so that was just a huge lifelong dream come true. Joey McIntyre is great. He is a real actor too; he is just not a famous boy-band musician.” TwoRealDreamKidsActorsHouseBoysHugeBandMusicianSeasonsBlockDreams Come TrueLifelongJoeyBoy BandsFull House Author:Andrea Barber
“I was just in a few episodes the first season [ of Empire]. They didn't kill me, but I haven't been back in season two or three. I don't know if they have plans for me or not. But I enjoyed working on it. And I think it's a really talented group of actors and, boy, very enterprising to try and shoot those every week, you know, with musical numbers and all that stuff.” IfsThinkingKnowsTryingFirstsTwoThreeActorsStuffNumbersBoysPlansGroupsWeekHavensSeasonsMusicalEnjoyedEmpiresEpisodesKill MeEnterprising Author:Judd Nelson
“Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days and whole unsuccessful seasons: there will be great misunderstandings and deep disappointments… you must be prepared for all this, expect it and nevertheless, stubbornly, fanatically follow your own way.” WayInspirationalArtWholeMotivationalActorsWalksActingImpossibleStageAreasSeasonsPreparedDisappointmentStoresNeverthelessBe PreparedMisunderstandingStumblingUnsuccessfulDeep Disappointment Book:Letters of Anton Chekhov Source: Letters of Anton Chekhov
“Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.” ArtNightActorsNatureAudienceDramaSeasonsEntertainmentTheatreCompareCinemaDramaticRitualContrastEvery NightTransport Book:Selected Essays of John Berger Source: Selected Essays of John Berger
“Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this seasons episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldnt possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood.” RealLastsActorsSceneSummerShotsHollywoodSeasonsProductionsFranceEpisodesUnitsCrewCastlesLandmarksLast Summer Author:Vic Morrow
“I am fully committed to 'Hannah Montana.' It's what gave me this amazing opportunity to reach out to so many people. I'm really excited about our new season. We are making great new episodes that I can't wait for our fans to see and I'm looking forward to the 'Hannah Montana' movie that will be out in the spring.” PeopleI CanActorsOpportunityWaitingFansSpringSeasonsCommittedExcitedMovieReach OutEpisodesLooking ForwardMontanaAmazing OpportunitiesHannah Montana Author:Miley Cyrus