Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Jacki Weaver Quote: 'They call David O. Russell the ...'

Related Quotes

pralongia dolomites alm nature
As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.


Ray Stevenson
Tags: Love Much Other
A lot of directors want to storyboard you, whereas the best way to get a performance out of an actor is a collaborative process where you listen to the actor's input.
Jacki Weaver
Tags: Best You Get
I was a guy who needed to go to class, because I had some raw talent that I thought was identifiable, when I finally made a decision to be an actor. And yet I wanted to learn how to really do the stuff. You know, 'How do I get to be a serious actor?'
Jon Voight
Tags: You Who Because
I love so many directors. I love David O. Russell. I love David Fincher, I love Alexander Payne and Jane Campion and my aunt. Spike Jonze. There are just so many amazing directors.
Gia Coppola
Tags: Amazing Just Love
I love watching people, guessing what they are going to do next. I'm no Derren Brown, but I love that people stuff. Maybe that's why I'm an actor.
Michael Socha
Tags: People Love Going
James Franco is a Method actor. I respect Method actors, but he never snapped out of character. Whenever we'd have to get in the ring for boxing scenes, and even during practice, the dude was full-on hitting me.
Tyrese Gibson
Tags: Respect Me Get
A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.
Peter Mullan
Tags: Good Lot Other
I've always believed that the director does whatever the hell he wants. That's what you sign on for as an actor - I can't stand it when you have actors who are trying to leverage directors into doing things they don't want to do.
Christian Bale
Tags: You Who Always
pralongia dolomites alm nature
Maybe I have just a younger voice than many other directors.


Michael Bay
Tags: Just Than Other
He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him.
Mark Rydell
Tags: You Get Out
I'm looking forward to, as an actor, having to do some stuff that's out of my comfort zone. It makes for interesting work and when you're uncomfortable doing something; then it's going to be interesting when they film it.
Ansel Elgort
Tags: Work You Out
Bad directors are the ones who want to tell you every move, and think they're a better actor than you.
Carroll Baker
Tags: You Think Who
Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set.
Jerry Weintraub
Tags: Great Because Get
I've done stuff to pay my dues and that's what actors are supposed to do, because I was a really bad actor when I was 18 or 20.
Rachael Taylor
denmark sea north sea beach sand
As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors.


Chow Yun-Fat
Tags: Like Just Our
mill gifhorn museum mill museum
Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too.


Dolph Lundgren
Tags: Good Great Movies
Genre stuff is the most exciting stuff for an actor to play. I get to try new things, do things I would have never got the chance to do.
Amy Acker
Tags: Chance Get Would
Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.
F. Murray Abraham
Tags: Great Amazing You
My dad was a theater actor, so he had an agent, and he brought me into his agency when I was maybe four years old. That was how I started. I started modeling, and it progressed from there.
Tinashe
Tags: Dad Me Had
I don't stay in my trailer. I like to sit in video village, probably to the annoyance of some producers and directors, because they really love to talk about actors, and they can't in front of me.
Elizabeth Banks
Tags: Me Like About