Hollywood wants to play Big Brother and make all the decisions, and not give the information to the parents,
Hollywood wants to play Big Brother and make all the decisions, and not give the information to the parents,
Grammys are fine, stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame -- they're OK,
U.S. cinema has a long way to go. Hollywood is not the most welcoming place for female directors. Women have made leaps and bounds over the last 10 years in filling studio executive jobs, but still, behind the camera, it's very driven by guilds that aren't as welcoming to women as they might be.
The one time I was an actor, it happened to be in a globally dominant juggernaut. That was lucky.
Opera once was an important social instrument especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi, people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.
I worked as a busboy in real life. I have some calluses that are not just from snacking at the actors' craft service table,
I guess kids would rather watch that competition on TV. Because they didn't come to the theater to watch it.
It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thing better than having a great actor, which is having a great actor who's never done what you're asking him to do. He's hungry to get out of the trailer every day and hungry to test himself.
As an actor, you should be willing to take challenges.
I was in a theater program when I was about 6 years old. I didn't like it as much as most actors do. Which is probably why I never went back to it.
But I don't really care for directors flaring up and trying to humble some actor, which they would do to try and make an example out of them so everybody else would stay on the ball - and David wasn't anything like that.
Becoming artistic director at L.A. Opera feels less like a major change in my life there than a kind of upgrading,
Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.
An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.
The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.
And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
There's clearly an assumption that the Opera House principally presents opera. Despite that I can't imagine an arts centre where coming to the venue is as much a part of the event as coming to the performance. We're a community asset.
That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further.
I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.
You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.
If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.
The combat units serving in Iraq and most of the supporting units serving in the theater will be replaced,
I happen to be one of the actors that was working at that time, which was during Black History Month. If you're not working in February, you'd better get yourself another job.
Terry's mother worked in the film industry for many years. She always wanted him to marry an actress.
When I meet an actor that I think is going to be possible is from the second he walks through the door, because it's a visual medium.
A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.
A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.
I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love.
I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.
I'll miss the relationships I have built with these actors. I'll miss the devotion we have to this work. Over this length of time, the tendency is to think it will never end.
One of the gifts the actors who do the show have is to make ridiculous situations feel real. We acknowledge when we're writing it or doing it that some things are unlikely, but it's the show and Jack Bauer doesn't work at a carwash.
simply because if you look at the music business, there aren't a lot of new artists that can fill up an arena. Realistically, some of the best music today is (by) people like Norah Jones or Alicia Keys (who) are more suited (to) the intimacy of a theater.
Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. I just started doin' it in front of an audience and had to deliver.
I hoped the chemistry was going to be there. There were six leading actors, and I wanted them all to mesh. I didn't know how they were going to relate. But a lot of them came out of a certain Hollywood generation, so they all knew each other and it was like a reunion. When I felt that click, I breathed a sigh of relief.
Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing.
I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.
I believe education in music, theater, dance, and the visual arts is one of the most I believe that as a part of the educational process, each child should have access to a music education program. That is part of a well-rounded education and can provide so much joy, now and in the future.
As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.
When you get all this stuff on and you put on the guns and the hair, it has an effect on the actor. It tends to lend a certain something to the way you feel as you're just walking around looking that way.
I was even offered some things that I didn't really feel were right for me for a lot of money, more money than I was making in the theater.
When two characters or two actresses are together for a while there is bound to be chemistry developing.
I was in a three-year program. I left after two years to work, but I can't say enough about how wonderful an experience it was as a young actor.
Hollywood looks to these young people now to say something to the world. I have nothing against that, I think a lot of people have things to say. But I think you need life experience.
Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.
I felt they (scenes) were justified by the text, and I had done sex scenes before in theater. No, I wasn't (uncomfortable).
It's a very sensitive issue with Alfonso. We respect him and we respect his ability as a baseball player. The position change and what's important to the team is something we'll continue to address appropriately. We don't want it to become a soap opera.
Philip insisted it would be wrong for him to break down and be so emotional. But, of course, when we rolled camera, he proceeded to do exactly what he'd argued against. It's what makes his performance feel so real. When he entered a scene, he was no longer thinking like an actor. He was thinking like Truman Capote would think.
We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set.
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