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To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast. You go over the initial script with them and listen to the way they talk. Then you try to do a rewrite to accommodate them.
Dito Montiel
Me
You
Bible
Try
Way
Only
Cast
Over
Talk
Becomes
Accommodate
Go
Been
Listen
Rewrite
Screenplay
After
Script
Them
Then
Initial
Film
Actor
Whether I'm writing the script, or someone else writes the initial draft, I'm always an actor's director first. I always try to listen to them a lot and try to put their voices into their character.
Dito Montiel
Character
Director
Writing
Try
First
Else
Someone
Voices
Writes
Put
Always
Lot
Listen
Whether
Script
Them
Initial
Actor
Draft
No actor can be a complete artist without trying his/her hand at comic roles.
Divyanka Tripathi
Complete
Without
Comic
Hand
Roles
Trying
Artist
Actor
Comedy is far more difficult, as it involves improvisation and impromptu acting, and as an actor, that came as a welcome break for me.
Divyanka Tripathi
Me
Welcome
Comedy
Difficult
More
Involves
Came
Impromptu
Improvisation
Break
Far
Acting
Actor
Being a TV actor is quite different from being a movie star, and I always try and highlight my character. It is the reason why I am more inclined to taking frequent sabbaticals: so that when I return, people can identify with the character I play.
Divyanka Tripathi
Character
People
Try
TV
More
Taking
Highlight
Identify
Return
Frequent
Always
Am
Quite
Being
Different
Movie
Movie Star
Reason
Inclined
Star
Actor
Why
Play
Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too.
Dolph Lundgren
Good
Great
Action
Too
Some
He
Cage
Done
Movies
Good Action
Action Movies
Actor
Great Actor
As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.
Domhnall Gleeson
You
Yourself
People
Tough
See
Audition
Very
Getting
Just
Want
Little
Room
Actor
Every actor is like, 'I could direct!'
Domhnall Gleeson
Every
Direct
Could
Like
Actor
When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous.
Domhnall Gleeson
Work
Good
You
Ways
Hoping
Absorb
How
Opposed
Handle
Being
Famous
Being Famous
Actor
I'm certainly a young actor. I'm certainly those two things. Actually, I'm not even young anymore; I'm 29. So, I'm an actor.
Domhnall Gleeson
Young
Those
Young Actor
Anymore
Certainly
Even
Actor
Actually
Things
Two
The worst thing as an actor is when you're not getting opportunities to try and show what you can do; the best thing is when you get material that really lets you express something and that you're excited about.
Domhnall Gleeson
Best
You
Opportunities
Try
Worst
Worst Thing
About
Something
Excited
Material
Get
Getting
Really
Show
Express
Lets
Actor
Thing
The whole idea with acting is that you take some risks. And if you take some risks, you're really going to mess up sometimes. But it's not OK to mess up a movie; it's not OK to do that just so you can improve as an actor. But film-making takes a little bit of risk in every department.
Domhnall Gleeson
You
Risks
Sometimes
Every
Bit
OK
Some
Risk
Take
Takes
Idea
Mess
Up
Improve
Department
Going
Just
Movie
Little
Little Bit
Really
Acting
Whole
Actor
Film-Making
Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this.
Dominic Chianese
Life
People
Uncle
Criminal
Has-Been
Something
Like
Him
Makes
Been
Junior
Want
Which
Whole
Villain
Preparing
Actor
Watch
Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.
Dominic Cooper
People
Wonderful
World
Living
Other
Pretend
About
Nobody
Ideas
Concepts
Expect
Should
Actor
One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.
Dominic Cooper
Environment
Exciting
Another
Being
Aspects
Acting
Actor
Enjoyable
For the three years I was in school training to be an actor, I was told, 'It's very unlikely you'll work at all on the stage or in film', so I feel I have to take all the opportunities I can.
Dominic Cooper
Work
You
Training
School
Opportunities
Three
Stage
Unlikely
Take
Feel
Years
Very
Film
Actor
My story is comic because I've spent vast amounts of effort trying to become a Hollywood screenwriter and made no direct effort on making my son a movie actor.
Dominic Holland
Son
Made
Become
Spent
Direct
Vast
Because
Comic
Making
Effort
Trying
Movie
Movie Actor
Screenwriter
Story
Hollywood
Actor
Amount
I hope to be an actor and never retire.
Dominic Monaghan
Hope
Never
Retire
Actor
I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.
Dominic Monaghan
Director
Three
Projects
Parameters
Involved
Get
Script
Actor
Based
I became an actor because I enjoy playing a variety of different people rather than playing one person for the rest of my career.
Dominic Sherwood
People
Rest
Enjoy
Rather
Variety
Became
Because
Than
Person
Different
Different People
Actor
Playing
Career
I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.
Dominic West
Big
TV
TV Shows
Cheap
Know
Parts
Because
American
Getting
Maybe
Shows
Actor
Why
British
British Actors
I always thought on my own that what is a huge part of being an actor, or what made me a better actor, was just really living life. Not being closed in on life, but being more open to experiences and to people and taking risks and exposing yourself to things.
Dominik Garcia-Lorido
Life
Me
Risks
Yourself
People
Better
Thought
Made
Taking Risks
Closed
Own
Living
My Own
More
Better Actor
Open
Part
Taking
Always
Huge
Huge Part
Just
Being
Experiences
Really
Exposing
Actor
Living Life
Things
The most fun part for an actor is the writing and the story and the character. That's very fulfilling.
Dominique McElligott
Character
Writing
Part
Most
Very
Story
Fulfilling
Fun
Actor
In my family, it was always encouraged to become a creative person. I became a doula instead, then I married an actor, and my sisters became famous almost overnight.
Domino Kirke
Family
Creative
Become
Married
Instead
Almost
Became
Always
Overnight
Encouraged
Sisters
Person
Famous
Then
Creative Person
Actor
I made a decision that whether or not I was going to make under the national poverty level wasn't going to play a part in whether or not I was an actor. That's what I do.
Don Johnson
Decision
Made
Poverty
National
Part
Make
Going
Whether
Actor
Play
Level
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