Brooke Adams Quotes

'The Bank Job,' for me, was a great opportunity for me to do some good acting, you know?

There is a drama queen in me, as I love acting, and I used to stand in front of the mirror and act since my childhood.

Film and stage are very different; I don't necessarily prefer one over the other. Every few years, I get a big itch to go back to the theater. To learn humility, to learn bravery and to remind yourself that the pistons that drive your craft are working on full power. And to remind yourself how badly paid actors can be.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

I'm a journeyman actor.

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

I consider myself a novice film actor.

I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.

It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.

You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference.

The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.

You learn an incredible amount doing theatre, not just about to behave.

My approach to 'Eastenders' is the same as my approach to film and the same approach to theatre. Whatever I do, I use the same skills and tools.

The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

In a drama, you don't make a fool of yourself.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

My chosen occupation isn't necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.

People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don't do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious.

I was lucky enough to have a plethora of types of roles before and during the horror movie part of my career.

There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.

People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!

With theater, you have to really be able to listen and to respond to other people on stage. You're all constantly on your toes. And then with film and television, you can get a second take and things like that.

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.

The most likely explanation is the most practical. 'Macbeth' is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of 'Macbeth'. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.