In The Business Of Acting, Those Are

I Think It Was Alfred Hitchcock Who Said 90 Percent Of Successful Moviemaking Is In The Casting. The Same Is True In Life. Who You Are Exposed To, Who You Choose To Surround Yourself With, Is A Unique Variable In All Of Our Experiences And It Is Hugely Important In Making Us Who We Are. Seek Out Interesting Characters, Tough Adversaries And Strong Mentors And Your Life Can Be Rich, Textured, Highly Entertaining And Successful, Like A Best Picture Winner. Surround Yourself With Dullards, People Of Vanilla Safety And Unextraordinary Ease, And You May Find Your Life Going Straight To Dvd.

I’ve Never Agreed With The Conventional Wisdom That ‘actors Are Great Liars.’ If More People Understood The Acting Process, The Goals Of Good Actors, The Conventional Wisdom Would Be ‘actors Are Terrible Liars,’ Because Only Bad Actors Lie On The Job. The Good Ones Hate Fakery And Avoid Manufactured Emotion At All Costs. Any Script Is Enough Of A Lie Anyway. (what Experience Does Any Actor Have With Flying A Spacecraft? Killing Someone?) What’s Called For, What Actors Are Hired For, Is To Bring Reality To The Arbitrary.

I Remember Tucker Toomey Was Named So Because "t's Are Funny!" And If Garry Marshall Says It's Funny, By God, It Must Be So.

I Don't Think You Have To Be Perfect To Be A Role Model.

I Also Listened To Hours And Hours And Hours And Hours And Hours Of [j.f.] Kennedy, And I Sort Of Built [ Accent]. And Then I Got On Set [of 'j.f.kennedy' Movie ] And Forgot It.but That's What You Want To Do. You Want It To Just Be Real. And I Think Authenticity Was Better Than - People Always Talk About When An Accent Doesn't Work, And The Phrase You Always Hear Is, "it Was Inconsistent."