Michael Cudlitz Quotes

Robert De Niro's sort of like a surfer: he doesn't really force anything. So if he catches the wave, or something spills out - to watch a guy be a force at what he does. He has a good worth ethic.

I'm probably one of the worst actors as far as preparation goes, because I actually don't prepare. I find it easier to read the script and whatever hits me in my stomach, like deep down, I just go with it. And the director kind of molds me whether to go right or left with it.

All good actors are very bright. You can't be stupid and a good actor. You may be inarticulate, you may not be highly educated, but all good actors are quick-witted, some of them dazzlingly so. All you do is guide them.

As an actor, you strive to show versatility.

My acting has got to be natural. I didn't go to any drama schools. It's a gift from God.

I have always been dramatic, so I think being an actress comes naturally to me. I think I am pretty good at it.

A lot of really good actors are able to go straight from life to their work. They don't treat it as something that's an unattainable, weird thing that they have to aspire to and reach for in a scene.

When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.

To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.

People call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied. Now... I love it.

I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. I'm not bad at it, but I don't think I really have a talent for it.

When you have a performer as talented as Bill Murray or as Harold, that can write as well as they can perform, you can do a final draft on the set if you think of it that way.

Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.

I don't think film actors need training, really.

There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see what the other players are giving to you. It's all about the transfer of energy between different actors.

Everyone seems to think they know what acting techniques are. Techniques just help you get to a certain place, but if the thing is happening just by itself, you don't need those techniques.

I think a lot of good actors - for instance, Gary Sinise - have no training. His training was really entirely on his feet. I suppose you have to have an instinct for it.

I don't really know how to act that much. I'm quite good at comedy, but it's mostly acting naturally.

Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

Actors, I have to say, most of the time, they elevate things; they don't screw things up most of the time.

I want to discover more things about acting.

It's fine to have talent, but talent is the last of it. In an acting career, as in an acting performance, you've got to have vitality. The secret of successful acting is identical with a woman's beauty secret: joy in living.

I am one of those guys who could do the most emotional scene and crack a joke instantly. I'm lucky. I'm just like an idiot savant. I have one enormously enjoyable, pleasurable - for me - talent, which is being able to act.

I know I've got the ability to bring a sense of menace to the screen. I have that specific competence, and it's generally kept me working.