top of page
Quote_1.png
Daniel Berrigan

"Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them."

Standard 
 Customized
"Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them."

Exlpore more Actor quotes

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Today some actors get a little full of themselves about what they're doing."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor."

Explore more quotes by Daniel Berrigan

Quote_1.png
Daniel Berrigan
"You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can."
Quote_1.png
Daniel Berrigan
"The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people."
Quote_1.png
Daniel Berrigan
"One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible."
Quote_1.png
Daniel Berrigan
"You just have to do what you know is right."
Quote_1.png
Daniel Berrigan
"We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons."
Quote_1.png
Daniel Berrigan
"Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd."
Quote_1.png
Daniel Berrigan
"Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap."
Quote_1.png
Daniel Berrigan
"And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I'm not responsible for its going somewhere."
Quote_1.png
Daniel Berrigan
"Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that."
Quote_1.png
Daniel Berrigan
"A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal."
bottom of page