You risk working with this director, you risk making this movie, you risk working with another actor you don't know. It makes your heart beat faster. And it keeps you interested.
The most important definition of an actor, the job of the actor, is to serve the writer, not yourself. Way too many actors serve themselves.
If youre not concerned about maintaining an image, you can pursue roads that another actor might not take.
If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.
Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.
In film, movies schedules are based on three things: actors availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place youre going to film in.
Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to.
Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.
As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.