Darren Aronofsky Quotes

Some actors give you what you want. Some you have to make do what you want.

I am a really writer-oriented actor.

My background is really being a writer's actor - that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best of writing. There's a whole range of acting skills, and some people can be astonishing with very poor material. That's not me; my skill is essentially unlocking the writing.

I am completely a director's actor. If the director gives me the liberty and freedom, then I give my inputs. Otherwise, I just follow instructions.

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

I feel like any time you, as an actor, can be surrounded by other amazing actors, you can't do anything but grow.

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.

In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to.

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.

I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.

When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous.

With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head.

A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. It's important to alternate between the two activities.

There's no one more willing to do something than an actor when it comes to perfecting a scene.

There's something about actors - not stars, but actors - if they have the character, and someone is pushing and shoving them to be the best they can be, they enjoy that.

The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.

I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.

I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality.

I love working with actors, and it's all been based on my being trained in the theater.

You want to mix acting styles correctly. People approach the work in different ways. You want to make sure no one wants to kill each other because the approach is different.

With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people.

Honestly, soaps are great training. You're doing 90-plus pages a day. It was my acting class, where I built my foundation for showing up and being professional.

For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.

Very few ideas are better than Catherine O'Hara's ideas when it comes to acting.