Acting In Movies Quotes by Alec Baldwin, Cary Grant, Alfred Hitchcock, Mathieu Amalric, Clive Owen, Justin Bartha and many others.
In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It’s just different.
The only really good thing about acting in movies is that there’s no heavy lifting.
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined Id be acting in movies.
A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you’ve got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don’t have that hunger.
When I first started acting in movies – as probably a lot of naive young actors do – I made a list of directors that I wanted to work with and sent it to my agent at the time.
Usually, those people don’t even like actors and they can’t wait until they get in the cutting room. They kind of break down in categories: directors who like to be surprised and some of them abhor being surprised. As far as directing, we all direct when we’re acting in movies… every single one of us.
