Pastoral Resources

Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.

My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.

Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.

Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.

Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.

We actors are like whores.

The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.

Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.

I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.

I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses, or musicians. And you know, I've been a big fan of different musicians or actors.

Actors have bodyguards and entourages not because anybody wants to hurt them - who would want to hurt an actor? - but because they want to get recognized. God forbid someone doesn't recognize them.

There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.

I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.

The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.

Most cartoonists are failed actors.

I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

Every actor I think has got their own number of takes that they like, you know. Some actors like to go all day, you know on the one scene and some actors want to take two takes. I personally like four.

James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect.