David Oyelowo on Staying in Character During Filmming: “Different roles require different things”
“My ambition is to keep the audience guessing…that is my path to a long career.” – David Oyelowo
“My ambition is to keep the audience guessing…that is my path to a long career.” – David Oyelowo
“It’s difficult to keep an audience engaged unless they see some vulnerability or some weakness.” – Guy Pearce
“I loved shifting from character to character, type to type, emotion to emotion.” – Patrick Stewart on His Early Acting Career
Hedges reveals how a failed audition jumpstarted his career and how he mastered that tricky Boston accent for the Massachusetts-set film.
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“When you’ve got really great writing, it makes it easy.” – Michael Shannon
“Start with yourself and see what kind of lines up with the character” – Jeff Bridges
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“It didn’t occur to me to try acting it until I was, for an actor, relatively pretty old — 22 or 23.” – Viggo Mortensen
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Fassbender talks about his parents’ concern about his action aspirations and why he reject the idea that he is an “intelligent actor.”
“Breathing life into a character means celebrating and recognizing the fullness of them…” – Scarlett Johansson
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“The fun part for me is endlessly talking about why does he do this, or why does he do that, or why doesn’t he? I really get into that.” – Casey Affleck on Rehearsing
Mendelsohn spoke about playing one of the Empire’s nefarious villains in the latest Star Wars film.
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“I want to know everything about everything, and that’s not possible and it won’t be possible.” – Andrew Garfield
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“I do love movies but I love making them more. I’ve never found something professionally that engages me as much as that.” – Ryan Gosling
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“They’re going to be judged based on your performance by millions of people.” – Aaron Eckhart on Playing a Real Person
“I love the idea of doing a lot of takes because there’s so many different ways that you can play scenes” – Adam Driver
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Portman speaks about the challenges with playing the famous First Lady.
“People ask me, ‘Why aren’t you sweating?’ And I say, ‘Because I am making myself effortless.’ The physical is key.” – Aaron Eckhart
Aaron Eckhart: “I have a saying: ‘If you’re sweating, you’re doing it wrong'” Read More »
“You know when you’re not getting it right, you know when you’re coasting.” – Viola Davis
“When we did the screen tests, there were six of us all in this room waiting to audition. It felt like The Hunger Games.” – Tom Holland on His Spider-Man Audition
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“I knew it was time for me to kind of evolve. Look, nobody tells you that. You just have to say now’s the time.” – Miles Teller