Craft Quotes

“The most important thing for an actor is to be a good listener. You have to really listen to what the other person is saying.”

“I never thought about being a star. I just wanted to be a good actress.”

“The work is the most important thing.”

“For me, the work is about the paradox of control and surrender.”

“I like the nuts and bolts of creating a character.”

“I do all the work myself. I do the lettering. I do the writing. I do the penciling. I do the inking. I do it all.”

“I think that the most important thing for an actor is to be honest.”

“A screenplay is not a novel. It's a blueprint for a film.”

“The most important thing for a good actor is to be a good listener.”

“For me, acting is not a therapy. I'm not a person who is in need of therapy... I'm a happy person.”

“I think there is a privacy that is necessary for actors to be able to do their job.”

“For an actor, the most important thing is to be a good listener.”

“We always felt that we were writing a story in song. It's a different kind of song-writing.”

“I'm not a method actor. I don't believe in it. I think it's a load of rubbish.”

“I'm not a Method actor. I'm a nuts-and-bolts actor.”

“The first fifty pages of a book are the most important. They have to be both intriguing and conventional.”

“I'm a student of the game.”

“Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief, but you have to have a certain rhythm, and you can't have any throwaway lines.”

“I'm not a Method actor. I'm a trained actor.”

“I'm not a method actor. I'm a nuts and bolts kind of actor.”