Actor Capability Quotes

Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.

I had read the novel and I had heard David Lean was going to direct it - and it came as a surprise to me because American actors, if given the chance, can do style as well as anybody and speak as well as anybody.

You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor.

I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.

It's such a gift when you know who you're writing for and you know that that actor is capable of so much that you can relax a bit.

There are actors that are really fine actors but not good auditioners. There are really good auditioners that may not be great actors. There are great actors that are really good auditioners, too. I happen to be someone who's not a great auditioner, but usually on a set can hold my own.

I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.

Probably the biggest challenge is actors, no matter how talented the actor is they don't have the capability of being in more than one place than one particular time, which is very vexing.

It's well known that actors are lousy writers.

To be very objective, I am here in this field for thirty five years, and I always knew that Shahid has an incredible capability as an actor.