top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable."
Standard
Customized
More
"Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Every actor I think has got their own number of takes that they like, you know. Some actors like to go all day, you know on the one scene and some actors want to take two takes. I personally like four."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings."
Diversity
"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children."
Mother
"Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable."
Actor
"I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character."
Dream
"The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake."
Home
"I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home."
Home
"Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons."
Forgiveness
"One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story."
Love
"I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there."
Work
"At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life."
Death
bottom of page