acting

As an actor he should be an extra in police line-ups.

Opening night is the night before the play is ready to open.

The play's the thing.

Very few people go to the doctor when they have a cold they go to the theatre instead.

Show business is like sex. When it's wonderful it's wonderful. But when it isn't very good it's still all right.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.

Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

To begin an ethnographic project with a goal, with an object of research and a set of presumptions, is already to stymie the process of discovery; it blocks one's ability to learn something new that exceed the frameworks with which one enters.

In the movies you get even; in life, diplomacy is best.

Out of perverseness, I jumped on the subway and went down to a sound stage on Fourth Street to watch the shooting of Kay Doubleday's big strip scene in Mad Dog Coll, a gangster film that can still, to my embarrassment, be seen occasionally on late-night TV... Kay Doubleday was in my class at Lee Strasberg's; it was in the interest of art, I told myself, to watch her prance down a ramp, singing and stripping her heart out.

TV stars are cool. Even if their characters are less than admirable, they come across as somehow sympathetic, maybe even neighborly. They are, after all, people you invite into your home every week. If you don't like them, you won't watch them.Movie stars, by contrast, are hot. They have to blaze so fiercely that they fill a screen forty feet high and demand the attention of a crowded theater.That's why very few TV stars have graduated successfully to features. It requires not only different skills but a different personality. You have to go from amiable to commanding.Likewise, some movie stars are simply too big for television. Jack Nicholson is riveting on-screen, but you wouldn't want him in your living room week after week. The television simply couldn't contain his personality.

Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?

Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.

I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.

The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.

Taking decision and acting out our decisions leads to increase