“The way I see the job, my definition of it, is to create characters to the best of your ability and then fit into what's trying to be accomplished in the general framework of the film. I think that's whether you're doing this- even if you're doing musical theater. That's what I think an actors job is. I don't know. I like to think what an actors job is is to create characters.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayTryingCharacterJobsFilmActorsAbilityFitTheaterMusicalDefinitionsAccomplishedFrameworkMusical Theater Author:Anton Yelchin
“Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability . . . For the ear he is an unutterable bore, not nearly so talented as Frank Sinatra back in the latter's rather hysterical days at the Paramount Theater.” AbilitySingingEarsTheaterLatterFrankBoresParamountHysterical Author:Jack Gould
“Most movies don't have the ability to find an audience. So the movie plays out very quickly in a lot of theaters to get the biggest gross. So that demands that we make things that are hits before they open. So they have to have the elements, they have to be franchises.” PlayAbilityAudienceDemandElementsTheaterGross Author:Laura Ziskin
“We like to keep the show small. Honestly, where we moved the show to the UCB theater, we moved it to a smaller space. Even though the show has technically gotten more popular. And that is, only because we like intimacy and the ability to experiment more. We don't want to be like, "We can get 250 people in a week. So let's do that. But we have to be careful about who we book..."” PeopleWantBookShowsAbilitySpaceWeekTheaterMovedCarefulHonestlyExperimentsIntimacyBe Careful Author:Scott Aukerman
“I'm not saying every musical theater actor can do film or television, but a lot of them can. A lot of them are brilliant actors who absolutely don't need to sing to prove their ability and don't get the opportunity.” NeedsFilmActorsOpportunityCan DoAbilityTelevisionProveTheaterMusicalBrilliantMusical Theater Author:Luke Evans
“My fourth mother, my godmother, she passed away a couple years ago - her name was Gwen. She was the theater director over at the gym where I grew up and learned about all those awesome things I told you about already. She was the one who taught me terms like "upstage" and "downstage," all those technical things about the art of what I do - how to breathe what I see, how to move. They were all her tactics, not anything learned or given to me through a theory, but rather by her natural abilities.” YearsArtMovingMotherNamesGivenTermNaturalAbilityTaughtTheoryGrewCoupleDirectorsGrew UpYears AgoTheaterBreatheGymFourthTacticsPassed AwayNatural AbilityGodmotherAwesome Things Author:Erykah Badu
“I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with poetry.” PeopleIdeasPlayFilmAbilityTvsTheaterBelieverFirm Author:Julie Taymor
“Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality.” TwoRealityLyingActorsAbilityActingExpressionDirectorsCreatingAreasTheaterConsistently Author:Lee Strasberg