Frank Miller Quotes

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

Anyone who has been given the gift of being opposite an actor who gives and gives, it just makes you better.

I wish I could say I had any idea what I was doing when I designed characters. I just take things I like and make my version of it.

A lot of my sketches came from thoughts, and I always just wanted to act them out.

I think once everything is in place, once you've kind of wrapped your head around the story and the character, it's very liberating and you can start doing things like you would do.

The best part of acting is the rehearsal, because that is where the real discovery comes. And if you're lucky, some of that actually makes it onto the page and some of that actually makes it onto the screen.

That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring.

I think part of the fun of being an actor is getting to work with different directors and seeing their take on it, what they're passionate about. They all have different ideas about your character.

Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.

I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.

Even if I play a similar role to one I've played before, I will never play it the same, I'll always try to do something different with it.

I never dreamed that the little ditties I wrote about annoying customers or bagel recipes would turn into a full-length musical comedy. But a very wise person told me to 'write what you know'. So I did.

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

I don't really picture anyone when I'm drawing. They just become their own completed person with googly eyes.

Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.

The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

I like doing a lot of research, and then you get there, you're in wardrobe, and then you're just reacting to what the other person is doing. The other actor is reacting to what you're doing, and it's this great back and forth. Because you've done all this research, you can use some of it or throw a lot of it out. You can get lost in it.