I think the Priem Minister has to be a butcher and know the joints.
Maybe I'm just lucky I'm not working with any assholes. . . yet.
Intimidation is 99 percent in the intimidatee's head.
I wound up auditioning, wound up getting in, and I was off to the races: I was putting in four more years after school to train to be an actor. I was 26 years old, and I still had a locker, for Christ's sake!
Every actor wants to do more, because you always think you can improve it.
Path To War was the last thing that John Frankenheimer directed, I think, before he died. I'm a huge U. S. history buff, and I studied the Vietnam era in college, so when I read the script, I was, like, "I really want to be in this thing so badly. . . "
I always enjoy being the obvious homunculus of the pair.
I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.
I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.
I'm just considering myself extremely lucky. All I wanted is to have 'Paranormal Activity' be released and become successful. And everything that's happened since then is just an enormous bonus.
I have many enemies and they all think I'm being highfalutin calling it performance, but the word "reading" has a connotation of something academic with the lights on and you're going to get a lecture. I'm looking to blow my audiences away by giving a fine, dramatic performance and reminding them of why they love stories.