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Quotes about acting and actors
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“A lot of actors think they don't need to go to college because they already have a career, but that's a bad idea.” (Burke Chris)
“I tell you what really turns my toes up: love scenes with 68-year-old men and actresses young enough to be their granddaughter.” (Burke Chris)
“[The most anyone will see of the 49-year-old movie star] is my fingernail, ... If I was in it, it would wreck everything.” (Burke Chris)
“It's set before the Conquest, so there are no European faces, and we are using mostly indigenous people and actors from Mexico City.” (Burke Chris)
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“When I read the script of Chandler, I thought WOW I can really shake hands with this guy. Chandlers a sarcastic guy, dry, funny - a guy who's not comfortable unless he's joking and hiding the emotional stuff that's going on with him. And Yeah, I can relate to that a bit.” (Burke Chris)
“Ninety percent of video game AI really is pretty damn bad. I think that's actually why it's so much fun to shoot things. Because the AI is so bad and the characters are so annoying.” (Burke Chris)
I started acting before that when I was about 13 or 14. (Burke Chris)
I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies. (Burke Chris)
If you do the same thing every time as an actor it gets boring and so I try to challenge myself and do not what's normal. (Burke Chris)
David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists. (Burke Chris)
I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process. (Burke Chris)
I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people. (Burke Chris)
I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily. (Burke Chris)
If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character. (Burke Chris)
It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it. (Burke Chris)
The thing is David is also aware of everything and it's not like you're going somewhere the director is not. (Burke Chris)
“I had never played a real-life character. All the characters that I'd played before were fictitious. So I'd spent all this time creating the affectations and amassing all of the attributes and characteristics and mannerisms, and then Jackie came to the set the first day of filming. I kicked everyone else out of my trailer, and we started to talk. He told me, in his own words, just for him and I, what the whole story was about for him and what that trial meant to him. After that meeting, all of the work that had gone into building the mannerisms and attributes seemed secondary. The most important element was to understand and believe in his cause.” (Burke Chris)
Acting is very immediate. (Burke Chris)
I'd lulled myself into the insularity of competence. I'd forgotten that, to do good work as an actor, you have to keep alive that part of yourself that's rebellious, that's an outlaw, that's... that's stark, raving crazy. (Burke Chris)
At the end of the day the audience knows that it is... after all... acting. (Burke Chris)
Acting is a short, sharp shock, and then I have a two-year break to do some directing. I mean you have to stop-OK, be serious about it-so I've put the kids through school. (Burke Chris)
Before I started, I worried about what I was going to say to the actors. It kept me awake at night. Sometimes you get the questions wrong. (Burke Chris)
British acting schools are diferent. There is a cultural difference. Americans, Africans, British, I'm not sure we share a language. (Burke Chris)
I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen. (Burke Chris)
The first role I ever did... I played a Nazi skinhead. (Burke Chris)
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