Benedict Cumberbatch on “Failing” as an Actor: “If you can’t fail, you can never get better”
“I don’t think I had the full tool kit to do it justice.” – Benedict Cumberbatch on One of the Times He’s Felt Lost Doing a Role
“I don’t think I had the full tool kit to do it justice.” – Benedict Cumberbatch on One of the Times He’s Felt Lost Doing a Role
Rockwell talks about getting into character for his role as an incompetent, small-town cop.
“I think that traditionally kids who look a particular way—’cute’ and ‘all-American’ are typical words used to describe what I mean—are encouraged to pursue acting and modeling and it results in a somewhat homogeneous representation of what a kid looks like.” – Casting Director Carmen Cuba
“If you want to figure out where you fit in the acting ecosystem, you look at where you would have fit into the generation that came before you.” – John Carroll Lynch
“I’ve never been one to find somebody on YouTube and hire them.” – Casting Director Jennifer Euston
“We didn’t settle on any single part, down to the one-year-old in the family that doesn’t speak.” – Casting Director Carmen Cuba
“I would say out of the 150 people, probably 144 of them were auditions.” – Casting Director Eric Dawson
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“That was the biggest challenge, dealing with the emotion and not making it too melodramatic—letting the real emotion out, and trusting your partner that they’re going to care for it.” – Ron Cephas Jones
“We always try to find the recognizable thread. The thing that we relate to is always the strongest point to start from.” – Rachel Bay Jones
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“…you’re not feeling inspired as an actor and not having that magic moment where it all comes together, then that’s when you have to pull the techniques.” – Corey Hawkins
“On this show, you’re constantly walking in with a new script with a new backstory and a new revelation on who you are. You’re constantly discovering.” – Ted Danson
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“The actor either has to learn how to develop their interpretation of who their character is, or study someone who is of that nature already.” – Casting Director Kimberly Hardin
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“For a casting director, that’s your—the actor that you have loved for decades getting their shot, and then not only taking it, but killing it, as Sterling does each and every week.” – Tiffany Little Canfield
“He had been auditioning for me for 10 years.” – Casting Director Jeff Greenberg on Eric Stonestreet
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Just check out the intensity in her face as she goes toe-to-toe with Hugh Jackman.
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“I think everything happens organically. You mine for clues. It’s all immersive and stuff you can use comes out of that immersion.” – Katherine Waterston on Creating a Character
“You allow yourself to let go of the responsibility of having to hit anything.” – Oscar Isaac on Acting
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“Never, ever, ever, ever, ever take a day off.” – Val Kilmer on Breaking into the Acting Business
Gadot revealed what happened when she first attended a screen test for Batman v Superman director, Zach Snyder
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“All I say is that if you HAVE to act, then you HAVE to make it happen.” – David Harbour
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