Bang Quote by Ian McDiarmid

An actor can play two or three lines where he says one thing, but plays the opposite. That's the most important moving part of…

— Jaco Van Dormael

Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.

— David Mamet

If a movie has three decent scenes and a decent character, I think, 'OK, at least they got that guy right.'

— Robert Ben Garant

All actors have to believe that our characters have a point that makes sense. Hopefully, they make sense to the crowd watching it, but…

— Mads Mikkelsen

It's an actor's dream to only have one line, and people like him, so I'm really lucky.

— Kristian Nairn

Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that…

— Jeffrey Jones

No one should make the mistake of thinking that three or four movies are going to change their fate.

— Bryan Lourd

Johnny sort of popped into my head midway through the first draft, and he wouldn't leave. But the more I thought about it, the…

— David Koepp

I think the actor has two responsibilities. One is to be visually compelling, and the other to recite the lines as written by the…

— Adrian Pasdar

I thought, "I don't want to be the only unfunny guy in this movie. I really would like to be somehow involved in the…

— David Morse

In film, there's so many little things where not just the actor can blow his lines, but technically, it doesn't quite come off in…

— Ali MacGraw

Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before.

— Michael Shurtleff