Gus Van Sant Quotes

In theater, there's a lot of discipline involved in doing eight shows a week for a year and a half. It's nice to be able to bring some of that bag of tools with you over to the film world, where you don't have the rehearsal, you don't have an audience. You don't have a month of rehearsal to examine these words, and you meet the guy who's going to play your brother the morning that you shoot the scene. So you need a bag of tools.

There are some actors who are rehearsal actors, and some who are not. I am not. Having said that, I don't know what I am talking about.

'Olive Kitteridge' is the only thing that I've done on camera where we had a day of rehearsal before we shot, and I'm so glad that that happened, because I was so nervous.

To be honest with you, there's nothing that bores me more than sitting around with a bunch of actors talking shop. I love actors and I've got friends that are actors. They're interesting people. But for some reason, usually when it comes round to talking shop, there's a part of me that doesn't like it.

If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along.

I think one of the mistakes actors make is we're so focused on what we're going to say.

I love acting, every job is a dream job when you're an actor. I'd like to do eventually more film work and to collaborate with the best actors and directors in film.

When I audition, I understand what it takes and the insecurities that come with it. If I do anything, I put actors at ease. I used to tell directors who weren't actors, the best thing they could do was take an acting class for a couple of months. Just to understand.

I'm an old fashioned theater major at heart. I love to do a show, do something with friends; I'm kind of a nerd in that way. I like to put on a wig or a fake mustache and do something silly with friends, do a little dance.

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

I have a theater background, so I like finding beats, working on things and having rehearsal.

The idea for actors is to make a living telling stories, so if you can do that, then you're way ahead of the game.

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.

Most actors hate readthroughs - they're exposing themselves before they're ready to, and before they've bonded. But I love them because they give us all the first inkling of what the whole show is going to be like, how each part affects every other part, and we won't see that again until it's all edited together.

I think that sometimes in theater, I don't prepare much beyond going to the rehearsals.

A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three.

Actors are supposed to be these runaways that get in a covered wagon filled with hats and tambourines and go from town to town making people smile.

I feel very privileged working with other actors. Actors tend to be the best company I know.

Actors are observers of human life, of human behavior.

There is no such thing as too much rehearsal. When Daniel Day-Lewis told Steven Spielberg he needed a year for 'Lincoln,' I understand that.

With actors, I have very close, intense working relationships with actors in theater.

Actors are adults playing hide-and-ego-seek.

After my 12th standard, I started preparing for the film industry. I've had no formal acting training.

I don't ever recall being nervous before performing because I've already stepped into the shoes and the clothes of the character.