Chris Sarandon Quotes

Acting is about reacting, and it's not easy to do that when you don't have a good co-star.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

Acting to me is always reacting.

Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.

The big secret in acting is listening to people.

When you act with phenomenal actors, it makes your job much easier because all you have to do is react.

I like to stretch my acting muscles.

It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.

Working with actors is something I've never done before. I find it tremendous. It's hard work.

I just love the process of working with other actors.

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

As an actor, you pay attention very closely to everything that happens to you, and you're constantly watching others as well, trying to just find out where everything comes from.

One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.

I'm hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good.

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.

I try to be a good, diligent actor.

I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.

'Girls' was my first audition. I'd just taken an audition class, and I was excited to implement those tools.

The best script in the world doesn't work perfectly when you actually act it out. That's a law. That's a given. So you have to play with everything. And the more fun you have with it, the better the finished product.

I love to prepare for my roles.

If I read something and respond to the role, that's what happens, and if those happen to be a few comedies in a row, or not, so be it.

I'm not a trained actor. I surrender to my directors, and they make me act.

I'm definitely interested in acting. I've done it in my past. I know I can do it, let's put it that way. And it's so much fun.