top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else."
Standard
Customized
More
"Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors."
Author Name
Personal Development
"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover."
Author Name
Personal Development
"An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen."
Life
"The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive."
Acting
"And I thought, my God, there's an off chance that they will say something that's really worth preserving and there is one way to do that and I knew what it was because I come from television."
God
"I did get Tom Hanks to say, Life is just a box of chocolates."
Life
"When it began I wrote this passionate letter to people I knew, studio members, of course, and other people with whom we have worked over the years and I said come and teach our students."
People
"The foundation for film acting is stage acting."
Acting
"Because - Bobby Lewis said this once to us in class, the better you get, the less credit you'll get. Because the better you are, the more it looks like walking and talking and everybody thinks they can walk and talk."
Education
"The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do."
Genius
"I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting."
Driving
"They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show."
Change
bottom of page