Brooke Adams Quotes

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.

Like any other actor, I want to be part of good projects.

Acting's fine if the script's written by Paddy Chayefsky and Martin Scorsese directs it, but unless you have something like that, I don't really enjoy acting.

My job when I'm acting in a movie is very limited to playing a role. I'm not evaluating somebody. I'm only evaluating them insofar as they're interacting with me, but I'm not evaluating their skill set and I don't watch the movies, so I'm not aware of the way they're putting things together.

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I'd be acting in movies.

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

I think if Roman Polanski had asked me to do the phone book, I would have said, 'Yes.'

It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.

When I do a film, I follow the director.

I am a director's actress in general - I depend a lot on them.

Acting began as a casual thing, but along the way, I did films like 'Happy Days,' '100% Love,' and 'Baahubali' that made me fall in love with cinema. I can't imagine being in any other profession.

Acting is acting at the end of the day. How does it matter if it is in films or on TV?

Acting is my profession; I enact all roles with sincerity.

I'm a director's actor and go by what they say.

I think acting is boring because you have to sit for a long time. And being a director I am used to running around and being busy on sets. I lack the actor software.

As an actor, I have had an iconic journey and was fortunate enough to have worked with some really wonderful directors.

Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.

It's funny how being an actor forces you to do things or go places that you wouldn't ordinarily.

Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.

As an actor, you don't have control over what you do, whom you work with.

Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and it's a very strange one.

Being an actor helps me direct a little bit, when I do that, which I haven't been able to do that much, but I plan to in the future. There are a lot of reasons for that, but certainly because I feel like you know how to talk to actors, and you know what they need from you if you've been one yourself.

I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.