Angelina Jolie Quotes

Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

People need to understand that whatever they see us saying on screen, we are not doing it on our own.

It doesn't matter if you're doing a studio movie or you're doing an independent movie. When you get to set and you're doing a scene, it's always going to be the same job. I really don't think about my career, in terms of planning it out and what this does for me.

Working with the likes of Joseph Fiennes was just an incredible experience.

Definitely as an actor, the experience you have, at least I'm talking for me, my experience as an actor is you go to the set and know what you're going to do, know your lines, you rehearse, you do your scene, you go back home. As a producer, for the first time I saw the whole picture in a completely different way.

We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie.

I miss working with great actors, working with great directors.

What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you obsess over certain scenes that you found the most challenging or interesting. The rest of the film kind of falls away in your memory or it fades a little bit.

I get to be in a room with other actors, but I never, or very rarely, get the chance to be in a room with another director.

An actor gets to take a nap, but the director is working hard from dawn till midnight. I'm kind of lazy.

After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.

When I do the roles, when I'm in the room and auditioning, I'll ask the director if they're cool with me adding stuff, or just improvising while we're doing it. And I would say, like, 90 percent of the time, they say, 'Absolutely.'

I take a script and mull over it and underline the bits I want to emphasize. When I go to the set, I know exactly what I want to do.

I did a lot of theater, so especially as an on-camera camera actor, there are so many things that aren't in your toolbox. They're somebody else's job. You think about editors and rhythm. Volume isn't even in your control.

In 2005, I had the great honor of playing Shailene Woodley's mother in 'Felicity: An American Girl Adventure.' I was immediately impressed by her work ethic, both on and off set.

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.

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

You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

I've only had good experiences with actors. Starring next to them and directing them, for the most part they're all inspiring, special people.

Most actors are pretty adaptable because we work with so many directors.

For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.

I feel very privileged to have worked with a lot of outstanding actors: Alun Armstrong, Peter Mullan, Matt Smith and Andrew Garfield.

I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me.

You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.