Back Quote by Willem Dafoe

I don't make decisions just on the character I'm supposed to play. Sometimes it's based on the director, sometimes it's based on the story,…

— Holly Hunter

I don't really have choices in the material I get. So I have to make the choices in the way I play the characters.

— Jamie Dornan

I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.

— Christian Bale

I know from experience that I make the best decisions when I'm into the story and inspired by the story, not when I'm sitting…

— Pamela Clare

I've always believed in making films that you make the little decisions with your head, but you make the big decisions with your heart.

— Steve Sabol

A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if…

— Jacki Weaver

But for me, you also have to be conscious of what is going to play. And that includes playing with. Sometimes it's just a…

— Gary Cole

Whatever you decide is your motivation in the scene, the opposite of that is also true and should be in it.

— Michael Shurtleff

In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit…

— Johnny Galecki

Before I start, I trick myself into thinking I know what's going to happen in the story, but the characters have ideas of their…

— Neal Shusterman

I'm not really one of those people who goes and writes some big back story and agonizes over characters. I think you kind of…

— Rose McGowan

So, it's always different. Some stuff, you want to do because it's a part that you've never played. It's always for story. Sometimes there's…

— Vincent D'Onofrio