"I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience."

Actor, Feeling, Shakespeare

9

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience."

Exlpore more Actor quotes

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

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Actor, College, Eye, Theatre

"I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent."

Peter Boyle, American Actor

Actor,

"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."

Joseph Barbera, American Cartoonist

Actor, Play

"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

Actor, Actors, Day

"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

Actor, Being, Want

"Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor."

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

Actor, Being, Film, Theatre

"An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening."

Boy George, English Musician

Actor, Listening, Talking

"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."

Robert Carlyle, Scottish Director

Actor, Actors, Day, Want

"Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly."

Philip Seymour Hoffman, American Actor

Actor, Being, Restaurants

"I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say."

Alex Cox, British Director

Actor, Sense

Explore more quotes by Trevor Nunn

"What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself."

People

"In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision."

Decision-Making

"The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable."

Decision-Making

"I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience."

Actor

"A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature."

Business

"When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War."

War

"In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work."

Work

"The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone."

Education

"When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors."

Actor

"I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do."

Imagination