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I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.
Amy Poehler
Funny
You
Genius
Improvise
Think
Say
Take
Know
Also
Tide
Audition
Go
Line
Commercial
Just
Actor
I would love to do a serious period drama. Oh, absolutely. I mean, you'll find most comedians want to do more serious stuff, most musicians want to be comedians, and most serious actors want to be musicians.
Amy Poehler
Love
You
Musicians
Drama
Would
Find
More
Absolutely
Stuff
Most
Comedians
Period
Oh
Want
Mean
Serious
Actor
If we based everything in Hollywood on who was a nice guy, holy moly, we would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ruled by kindness and generosity.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
Work
Kindness
Nice
Everything
Ruled
Would
Guy
Generosity
Industry
Movies
Hollywood
Holy
Who
Nice Guy
Actor
Based
I have to say that as an actor, I really look for the role. I'm not really looking to see if it's for television or film, because there are highly talented people in both mediums.
Amy Smart
People
Looking
Mediums
Say
Television
See
Both
Highly
Talented
Talented People
Look
Because
Role
Really
Film
Actor
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.
Analeigh Tipton
Me
You
World
Enjoy
Think
Once
Bit
Possibly
About
Fell
Odd
Model
Modeled
Did
Quite
Quite A Bit
Decent
Little
Far
Actor
Ever
The riskiest thing I have done in my fifties is to do a Polish accent for a new film. I had a great time working on it and two wonderful people to guide me. A dialect coach that I have known for thirty years and a Polish actor.
Andie MacDowell
Time
Great
Me
People
Wonderful
Thirty
Guide
Had
New
Great Time
Accent
Known
Polish
Dialect
Years
Wonderful People
Done
Fifties
Coach
Working
Film
Actor
Thing
Two
It's difficult sometimes to become friends with actors.
Andie MacDowell
Sometimes
Become
Difficult
Friends
Actor
I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked.
Andre Previn
Music
Writing
Finally
Talked
While
Interested
Actor
Played
I am not a method actor. I would call myself a spontaneous actor.
Andrea Jeremiah
Myself
Would
Spontaneous
Call
Am
Method
Method Actor
Actor
I work with big directors. I work with good actors. I act in female-centric films. And I do all this without ever indulging in a casting couch experience. Because I believe in hard work, talent, and blessing.
Andrea Jeremiah
Work
Hard Work
Good
Blessing
Experience
Big
Believe
Films
Casting
Directors
Couch
Talent
Indulging
Because
Without
Good Actors
Act
Hard
Actor
Ever
I do not feel intimidated by actors or stars because I was never exposed to films widely.
Andrea Jeremiah
Stars
Films
Intimidated
Never
Feel
Because
Exposed
Actor
Widely
I don't like getting dressed up. It's hard because as a woman, as an actor, the whole world wants you to enjoy dressing up.
Andrea Riseborough
You
Woman
World
Enjoy
Dressed
Dressing
Like
Because
Up
Getting
Getting Dressed
Wants
Hard
Whole
Actor
Transformation as a female actor is allowed up to a certain extent - as long as they can still recognize you on a red carpet. For a woman to be a shape-shifter, and to be that malleable in spirit, is really not OK with the patriarchy.
Andrea Riseborough
You
Woman
Long
Transformation
OK
Carpet
Recognize
Spirit
Allowed
Red
Red Carpet
Female
Still
Up
Malleable
Patriarchy
Really
Certain
Certain Extent
Actor
Extent
As an actor, you want to know if you're keeping a secret or telling the truth.
Andrea Riseborough
Truth
You
Secret
Telling
Telling The Truth
Know
Want
Actor
Keeping
I think it's really hard to move between genres, and I think, especially in Britain, we're very judgmental about it - me included. I know that when an actor comes out with some poetry or an album, I think, 'Oh crikey, what's this going to be like?'
Andrea Riseborough
Me
Think
Out
Some
About
Poetry
Between
Like
Know
Genres
Judgmental
Very
Going
Move
Oh
Really
Hard
Included
Actor
Album
Britain
I've worked opposite so many male actors whose egos have been so delicate that it was just so hard to do the work.
Andrea Riseborough
Work
Delicate
Opposite
Been
Male
Male Actors
Egos
Just
Worked
Hard
Many
Whose
Actor
I get stopped by people on the Upper West Side of Manhattan - actors, directors, people that I revere - who are closet conservatives who feel the same way but can't speak out. And they think I am fighting for them so they can come out of the closet eventually and express themselves without worrying about losing their jobs.
Andrew Breitbart
People
Speak
Losing
Fighting
Think
Conservatives
Side
Worrying
Way
Out
Jobs
About
Directors
Feel
Come
Without
Am
Revere
West
West Side
Get
Same
Upper
Closet
Stopped
Manhattan
Them
Themselves
Who
Express
Actor
Eventually
I'm not a booky actor, I don't go away and do loads of reading up on a part, generally. I'm more interested in what the people we're portraying do physically, and looking at their sentence construction.
Andrew Buchan
Construction
People
Looking
Reading
Go Away
More
Physically
Generally
Part
Go
Up
Interested
Sentence
Actor
Away
Portraying
Loads
I feel very privileged to have worked with a lot of outstanding actors: Alun Armstrong, Peter Mullan, Matt Smith and Andrew Garfield.
Andrew Buchan
Andrew
Outstanding
Feel
Smith
Armstrong
Lot
Matt
Very
Privileged
Worked
Peter
Actor
Garfield
Most actors hate readthroughs - they're exposing themselves before they're ready to, and before they've bonded. But I love them because they give us all the first inkling of what the whole show is going to be like, how each part affects every other part, and we won't see that again until it's all edited together.
Andrew Davies
Love
Together
Hate
First
Before
Every
Other
See
Give
Part
Like
Most
Until
Because
Edited
Ready
How
Affects
Going
Again
Them
Themselves
Us
Show
Whole
Exposing
Each
Actor
Bonded
Sometimes you do complete run-throughs of scenes, sometimes you break scenes down into little bits. It just depends on what the actors like to do. It's almost like jamming.
Andrew Dominik
You
Sometimes
Down
Complete
Bits
Scenes
Almost
Like
Just
Depends
Break
Jamming
Little
Actor
Sometimes you see a movie and you can really feel that it's an actor putting in a performance. Someone said 'cut' and they're back in their trailer having a coffee or getting their hair done.
Andrew Dominik
You
Sometimes
Coffee
Hair
Back
See
Someone
Having
Putting
Feel
Performance
Said
Trailer
Done
Getting
Movie
Cut
Really
Actor
Actors have either got to play something that's close to them, or something that's the complete opposite.
Andrew Dominik
Complete
Complete Opposite
Something
Got
Opposite
Close
Either
Them
Actor
Play
When I found out about being cast in 'Spider-Man,' it was like this bubble developed around me. I was floating in it for a while. And then, suddenly, it evaporated, and I was like, 'Well, I'm just an actor. I don't get to actually be Spider-Man.'
Andrew Garfield
Me
Out
Spider-Man
About
Cast
Bubble
Developed
Like
Well
Around
Get
Just
Being
While
Then
Floating
Suddenly
Found
Actor
Actually
With supporting roles, you just want really good actors that can make it bigger than what's there.
Andrew Haigh
Good
You
Supporting
Make
Than
Roles
Just
Want
Bigger
Good Actors
Really
Actor
It's always important to try and get a real sense of the world around my characters. I especially think it helps actors.
Andrew Haigh
World
Try
Important
Sense
Think
Characters
Around
Always
Real
Get
Get A Real
Real Sense
Helps
Actor
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