Steve Bisley Quotes

An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator.

A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.

The fundamental job of the actor is to tell about the human condition, to be a voice for the truest ideas and deepest emotions.

I think the best actors do both. I think they fulfill what you want them to do, in terms of the vision for the whole piece. And then they always bring something that does surprise you and shock you.

Our job, as actors, is not to tell the audience how interesting we are, but to entertain them with our films.

Every actor just wants good writing.

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

I'm always amazed when any actor can decipher my direction.

I still feel I belong to the theatre. There is nothing more challenging and exciting for an actor than performing before a live audience. The stage is the real testing ground for an actor.

When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.

With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.

I am a really writer-oriented actor.

The actor always must be in the scene, not above the scene. To communicate any larger ideas is my problem; it's how the narrative is constructed and directed that hopefully does it.

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.

An actor puts himself in the hands of a director. And the director's first responsibility, obviously, is to tell the story, but the smallest thing that's not true reads on the screen. So if a director sees that an actor is not believable, he needs to help him become believable.

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

My job as an actor is to cover and expose in varying allowance that - so that the audience can peek through the window to the people I create.

Knowing what thought process goes into constructing a line helps an actor know how to deliver that line because you understand the intention behind the writing.

As an actor, it's my job to make everything interesting and exciting and new. If I'm not doing my job well, then I'm stealing.

I don't worry too much about learning lines per se. The memorization is the easy part for me, usually. For me, it's more about working on the context, back story, intention, motivation, etc. Once that's in place, the lines come pretty naturally.

Sometimes, actors in films will play the ending of the movie, or even the middle, and you know where it's going - as an audience member, you can read the actor.

The platform doesn't really matter to me, whether it's stage or theatre or even a web series. I just am more interested in, like, if it's a story that I would want to watch and if it's a character that I feel like I can contribute something to, then that's really what gets me.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

My job as an actor is to just tell the story as best I can from my character's point of view and let the audience decide.

An actor doesn't change thought, theme, or mood unless the character does, and the character only does it within the words of the play.