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When I come onto a show where I haven't met any actors, I try to zero in on the script and what's expected of the character I'm going to play and hopefully keep my focus on that, and friendships develop from that.
Christopher Lloyd
Character
Try
Focus
Met
Hopefully
Onto
Develop
Come
Friendships
Expected
Any
Going
Where
Script
Show
Keep
Actor
Play
Zero
I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to fill it out.
Christopher McQuarrie
Character
You
Director
Believe
Out
Only
Writer
Hiring
Providing
Skeleton
Fill
Actor
The challenge in most car chases is you're trying to hide the fact that it's not the actor driving.
Christopher McQuarrie
You
Hide
Car
Challenge
Fact
Driving
Most
Trying
Actor
But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have a job - and you are working with heavyweights, working with the best guys in TV, it's pretty cool. Exhausting, but cool.
Christopher Meloni
Saying
Best
You
Job
Blessed
TV
Pretty
Guys
Head
How
Exhausting
Heavyweight
Working
Working Actor
Your
Cool
Keep
Actor
I met Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I'm not really star struck by actors, but musicians, that's when I get star struck. Chad Smith is my number one drum influence, so that was a real mind-blow. I spoke to him - proper English, thank God!
Christopher Mintz-Plasse
God
Musicians
Thank God
Met
Peppers
Proper
Struck
My Number One
Hot
Spoke
Red
Drum
Him
Smith
Real
Thank
Get
Influence
Chili
Really
English
Chad
Star
Actor
Number
The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.
Christopher Nolan
Best
Other
Out
Feel
Instinctively
Accommodate
Just
Actor
Need
My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is about listening and responding and realizing how much they need to know from me and how much they have figured out for themselves, really.
Christopher Nolan
Me
Try
Listening
Whatever
Approach
Responding
Out
About
Give
Direction
Know
How
How Much
Them
Themselves
Much
Realizing
Really
Figured
Actor
Need
I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for.
Christopher Parker
Doctor
Young
Kids
Something
Also
Well
Always
Provide
Wanted
Actor
Needed
Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.
Christopher Walken
Valuable
Power
Valuable Thing
Emotional
Most
Maybe
Actor
Thing
Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.
Christopher Walken
Experience
Own
Draws
Obviously
His
Actor
Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.
Christopher Walken
Theatre
Training
Comedy
Musical
Musical Comedy
Background
Well
Always
Yeah
Where
Really
Actor
Played
As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.
Christopher Walken
You
Made
Become
Lighting
Between
Audience
Rod
Person
Who
Actor
Play
I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a teenager, I suppose I figured that I'd always been in that world to some extent.
Christopher Walken
Time
World
Comedy
Accident
Teenager
Musical
Musical Comedy
Some
Since
Suppose
Became
Always
Been
Figured
Actor
Extent
I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.
Christopher Walken
Never
Performer
Child
Child Actor
Actor
Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.
Christopher Walken
Time
Business
Job
Long
Long Time
Dancer
Singer
Well
Sort
Got
Then
Show
Show Business
Actor
I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer, and then I got a job as an actor.
Christopher Walken
Time
Business
Job
Long
Long Time
Dancer
Singer
Sort
Got
Then
Show
Show Business
Actor
I certainly have never been an actor who can play the Everyman guy - or, I don't tend to get those parts. I've tended to play eccentrics. I've played a lot of villains, of course.
Christopher Walken
Everyman
Those
Eccentric
Guy
Tend
Never
Course
Parts
Been
Lot
Get
Certainly
Who
Villains
Actor
Play
Played
In England, and all over Europe, and all over the world, actors act until they die. They get old, really old, and they're still working. They just keep doing it.
Christopher Walken
World
Old
Over
Until
Still
Doing
Get
Die
Just
Really
Working
Act
England
Europe
Keep
Actor
Every actor is a model to a certain extent, since they have to do so much press.
Christy Turlington
Every
Press
Since
Model
Much
Certain
Certain Extent
Actor
Extent
I'm a people's actor, not a critics' actor, and I always have been.
Chuck Norris
People
Critics
Always
Been
Actor
I've always been an actor who works in every medium - I've worked in theater and film and television - I've never seen any difference between the three.
Cillian Murphy
Three
Seen
Every
Medium
Television
Never
Between
Always
Been
Any
Difference
Theater
Worked
Who
Works
Film
Actor
Film And Television
After kids, the desire to improve as an actor remains, but time becomes hugely important. I want to do good work and do it well but then be at home. I love hanging out with my children, seeing how they behave, and stealing ideas off them. You can't do that if you're in a hotel, on a plane, or a film set. It's not real life.
Cillian Murphy
Life
Work
Love
Time
Good
Home
You
Good Work
Important
Real Life
Kids
Out
Seeing
Stealing
Remains
Hotel
Ideas
Well
Becomes
How
Real
Off
Improve
Hugely
Behave
Hanging
Children
Want
After
Them
Plane
Then
Film
Actor
Film Set
Desire
Set
It's only an advantage as an actor - looking younger than you are. If you can maintain it.
Cillian Murphy
You
Looking
Only
Advantage
Maintain
Than
Younger
Actor
A director, I forget who, told me that it takes 30 years to make an actor. And I believe that. You have to learn your craft, learn your trade - and also you have to live a life and experience things.
Cillian Murphy
Life
Me
You
Director
Experience
Live
Believe
Takes
Also
Make
Learn
Trade
Years
Forget
Craft
Your
Who
Actor
Things
It's embarrassing sometimes, the way actors or musicians sometimes get made untouchable.
Cillian Murphy
Musicians
Sometimes
Made
Way
Embarrassing
Untouchable
Get
Actor
It's always great to see one of the actors I've worked with from 'Caddyshack' and 'TRON.' I run into them occasionally at events.
Cindy Morgan
Great
Events
Run
See
Occasionally
Always
Them
Worked
Actor
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