I'm not that complicated as an actor. I have a formula in which I work, yeah. But not like Sean Penn does. Sean is one of the few actors I know who can work like that, actually becoming the character he is playing, and get consistent results. I don't believe you can ever be someone else. You manifest different levels of your own personality to come up with a character.
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I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.
I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.
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I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.
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I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me.
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I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.
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In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.
The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.
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David was the kind of guy who was totally supportive of the actors and instructed the writing staff to trust the actor's instincts, since after all, it's the actors playing the character.
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I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.
You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.
quote by Harvey Fierstein
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Sean's a better person when he's directing. He becomes a queen when he's an actor. And he's so unhappy when he's acting.
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I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
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Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume.
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I'm still Sean that me mates went to school with, not Sean the film star. And that's the way I prefer to be.
I think that you always have something left, that you take something of the character with you.
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Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.
Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it.
If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.
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I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.
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Party In The Centre Of Melbourne
i hoped off the train at melbourne yeah
welcome to the city of fame excess
am i gonna fit in
i jumped in the car
here i am for the millionth time
look to my left and i see the stop sign
this is all so crazy
everybody seems so country
my tummys turning and im feeling kinda car sick
too much pressure and im nervous
so i turn on the radio
and the jay sean song was on
and the jay sean song was on
and the jay sean song was on
so i put my hands up and sing my song
and the sickness faded away
poem by Sophie Dennis
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