Rocky Carroll Quotes

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.

You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One thing I often notice is that the actor is looking for his mark, the place where he has to stand to be in the right place in the shot.

I'd like to be in a play with Mark Rylance.

If you're an actor, you have to look spiffing. But as the director, you don't need to look so glamorous.

I come from the theater, and there is a real collaborative history there.

Acting is completely different from the standup world. You have these 12- or 14-hour days, but you have a great time doing it. It's like hanging out with your friends.

I have always said that the biggest difference between stage and cinema is that one has got close-ups.

People think it is such an easy life, and you just go get ready, and someone does your hair and make up, and all you have to do is say a few dialogues. But there is lot more behind it. You are getting into a particular frame of mind to get into a scene; you have to get your emotion right.

I think there are certain technical things about acting that change between working in film and television. Everything definitely slows down and we have more time in film.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

When I was doing 'All in the Family,' half the time, I was looking at where the cameras were, where were the other actors in the scene, what the audience was doing.

I don't put on my best clothes to make a film, my Sunday best.

I'm an actress who likes a strong, communicative director.

Roles make the actor.

In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.

Acting is my job.

Part of an actor's job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.

I like actors - I used to be one.

My dad was a theater actor, so I would follow him backstage. And my mom was a casting director. The moment I heard the applause and realized it would get me out of school, I was hooked.

Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums.

I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way.

I'd like to act in a film without special effects.

I love the theatre and theatre people.

Theatre was always my passion.