Quotes about Actors

Dying on stage, actors are reborn in product advertisements. Good directors give short and specific instructions to their actors. As a child actor, there are two jobs that you can get: you're either the younger version of someone or you're playing somebody's daughter - and there were just not many leading Hispanic actors who I could be that for. In the theaters of the future, actors and directors will be mainly women with a pedagogical education: from the first to the fourth grade - school will be replaced by circuses, from the fifth to the eighth - by folk theaters, from the 9th to the 11th - by Academic theaters, and all higher educational institutions will be transformed into extended-day groups. A good director should gradually cultivate professional spectators in his actors, so that they understand what they want to pay money for, seeing them on stage. Actors can not understand the difference between life and a dream, and directors all the time confuse the stage of life with the stage of the theater. The dream of actors: to gather all the directors and bury them in the orchestra pit. The actors live and survive on the stage, and the directors in the auditorium "want" but "cannot". The director from the auditorium sees the play completely differently than the actors - on the stage. A director is like a shepherd for actors, only they are not a flock of sheep, but a pack of wolves. Actors can do without a director, but theater directors cannot! The hero dies. Playing leading roles is always dangerous, which is why even in the theater most talented actors are so brilliant only in secondary roles. Actors are conscientious people, without this, it is impossible to play well on stage, while good directors, in order to stage performances well, must have instead of a conscience - the talent to torment and torment it. Actors are the brain of the theater, the repertoire is its backbone, and the other organs are its audience. You can say it differently: roots, trunk - branches. The director is strict, but fair, the actors are immoral, but talented, the main thing is that the author of the play, although dead, is a genius. The actors' job is to be hypocritical, the directors' job is to teach hypocrisy, and the audience's job is to enjoy how skillfully they do it. The matter is - we are actors playing roles [in Planet Apes] and they happen to be in this instance apes but there's no difference. In the scenes that we're playing, if we were to block out the scenes as actors in costumes, it would be no different. It's a different rhythm than most movies. For a lot of the actors, you're 12,000 miles away from home. It becomes a way of life - getting up at five in the morning, shooting every day, day in day out, for 270 days. The new cast playing the dwarves were carrying incredibly heavy weights in their suits, they sat through hours of make-up every day. So it's quite challenging from a stamina point of view. Great actors like Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page and Samuel L. Jackson will go and do a videogame, because they understand that storytelling isn't just necessarily about filmmaking. As soon as you do it, actors realize there is no difference playing a performance-captured role or a live-action role. I think when actors run away from their work that they're slightly crazy, really! Actors' performances do not stand alone in any film, live action or whatever. Actors' performances in films are enhanced in a million different ways, down to the choice of camera shot by the director - whether it's in slow motion or whether it's quick cut - or... the choice of music behind the close-up or the costume that you're wearing or the makeup. When I'm working on the s or working with the other actors or rehearsing with the director, and when the director is cutting the movie, and we've shot the scene, the director is not looking at the visual effects. I think the actors in 'Greystoke' were amazing. They had a really good performance coach called Peter Elliott who's, of his time, one of the greatest simian performance coaches for actors. I think most actors go into the business thinking, 'I can play everything. Why can't I play a black woman? Just give me a chance.' Then you grow up and realize it's probably better that they cast an actual black woman. They say that wrestlers are actors, and they couldn't be more wrong. The truth is wrestling and acting could not be more opposite. Wrestling is explosion, and acting is implosion. There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that. American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us? Well, actors get very frustrated with giving control to other people. They have their own ideas and wants for their characters. Warren Beatty once told me that he thought actors ended up directing out of frustration. If you have a strong sense of how to communicate a film, you should direct. The problem is that it is a huge commitment. I'd rather direct a play than a film due to the time. A movie can tie you up for a year or more.