I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in hi...s future profession.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best parts. And when I woke up--socio...logically, politically, and creatively--I could no longer take those parts and look in the mirror.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm tired of playing worn-out depressing ladies in frayed bathrobes. I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back t...o school and even if nobody notices, I'm going to be the most self-fulfilled lady on the block.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Analogies between the stage and the screen assume that they deal with the same material. But they don't. The material of the scree...n is not actual objects but images fixed on the film. And the very fact that they have their being on film endows these images with properties which are never found in actual objects. For instance, on the stage the actor moves in real space and time. He cannot even cross the room without performing a definite number of movements. On the screen an action may be shown only in terminal points with all its intervening moments left out. Similarly, in watching a performance on the stage the spectator is governed by the actual conditions of space and time. Not so in the case of the movie spectator. Thanks to the moving camera he is able to view the scene from all kinds of angles, leaping from a long-distance view to a close-range inspection of every detail. It is obvious that with this extraordinary power of handling space and time--by elimination and emphasis, according to its dramatic needs--the motion picture can never be content with modeling itself after the stage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV i...mage, that the actor must achieve a great degree of spontaneous casualness that would be irrelevant in movie and lost on the stage. For the audience participates in the inner life of the TV actor as fully as in the outer life of the movie star. Technically, TV tends to be a close-up medium. The close-up that in the movie is used for shock is, on TV, a quite casual thing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the movie woman's world is designed to remind us that a woman may live in a mansion, an apartment, or a yurt, but it's all the... same thing because what she really lives in is the body of a woman, and that body is allowed to occupy space only according to the dictates of polite society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Once the curtain is raised, the actor ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He m...ust do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To be a good actor ... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the labor...ious task that has barely just been finished.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »