The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
As far as the performance aspect, I'm going to be an actor. I still love performing, but I'm moving into more acting.
One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx.
There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.
Ive always been very comfortable in a set environment. All the collaborating going on, seeing how actors work - it all excites me.
Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.
There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.
I think the choice of actors that we have is a little more varied and rich here in New York than in L. A.
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.
To me, it's a little odd to ever think 'model into actor. ' I modeled once. I was about as far from a decent model as you can possibly be. I did not enjoy the world at all. I fell in my stilettos quite a bit.
Out of all the actors I have worked with, I love working with Larry Hagman the most. We were very close and it was just a wonderful time.
It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.
I don't know one actor that became an actor for healthy reasons.
Actors who say they don't watch TV are stupid. I was raised by TV! And it's how I research for auditions.
I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to.
As much as I'd like to pretend that I'm not performing, I think any actor sometimes has themselves outside of themselves and is trying to direct themselves and control what you're seeing and thinking.
I think it's very rare, as an actor, that you get to a script, or an idea of a script, and you go, "Oh, I just have to do that!" It fell into place very quickly.
Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the condition that they contain some sort of social message. I cannot take very seriously a social message delivered by an actor who is paid nine million dollars to deliver it, and who charges you five dollars to see it.
A conservative frame of mind is very limiting for an actor, and a human being, too.