Frank Vincent Quotes

This is going to sound cheesy, but with acting there are so many tools. When you're on camera, you're using all of it. You're using the voice, you're using your body, you're using wardrobe, all of it, but it's funny, once you take all of those things away, you realize how much you rely on the physicality.

The way a character sounds is so important to how you're going to play him.

I have always said that the biggest difference between stage and cinema is that one has got close-ups.

I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there's a story to tell and I can tell it through my body and my voice.

Voice acting is very interesting, I've done several animated projects, and you have to make the voice reflect the character and try and do as much with a word as you can with a look in a live-action film.

I was lucky enough to be able to do comedies, dramas, completely different parts. At the beginning, when you start you have a fantasy that you could be somebody else. Which is absurd. That's part of being an actor. It's your voice, it's the way you move, it's your body, even if you transform it, you play with it.

A film is different than a script. The text of the script is what it is.

To me the voice has always been the way to start any character. Once I find that, I'm good to go.

Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.

What's exciting about theatre is observing human behaviour. You're constantly making judgments about body language, the physical, the emotional, the intellectual.

Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.

I like language, and in film, language is diluted by the visuals and the music. Theatre is what I was trained for.

When you read a play, the words speak to you. When you read a script, there's no way you can tell if that's the way that movie will turn out.

I play characters, and I try to play them in a manner that's appropriate to the script. Physical movement and vitality of language is part of character.

In theater, the primary tool for me was voice. On-screen, it's the eyes.

Even though technically the fundamentals of acting are always the same in every medium, what's different is the size.

To be a good actor, you need to be able to emote with your body.

Whatever Paul Giamatti plays, Paul Heyman could also read for it.

The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires. When you're acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.

Actors are the most important. Performance is what matters. Nothing matters more than the actors; they have to perform. No one else can give life to the characters. Audiences must believe the characters as real and the moments as real.

I love acting and the whole idea of being in front of the camera.

When you write a script, you hope that people will give it life beyond the script.

As an actor I am prepared for every role, that's my profession.

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.

Voice is the first instrument.