Archive for January, 2010

Romola Garai on potential distortions of an acting career

Romola Garai on potential distortions of an acting career

What choices and compromises do you make to gain attention and opportunities as an actor? Romola Garai has expressed a number of thoughtful perspectives on these topics. Here are some quotes from her imdb.com profile. On Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights : “I wouldn’t have done something that I thought had no merit in it at [...]

Joan Chen on the emotional need to retreat

Joan Chen on the emotional need to retreat

Joan Chen comments about first seeing “Edward Scissorhands” in 1990: “It was unique cinema that felt like pure magic. The bizarre beauty of the film and the gentle hero with his lethally sharp scissorhands stayed with me through out the years. “Looking back, after almost 20 years, I now understand better the fierce longing and [...]

Ethan Hawke plays vampire scientist Edward Dalton in Daybreakers.

Ethan Hawke on using multiple talents and interests

“I think it’s my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I’ve learned from the actors I’ve worked with is you don’t get something for nothing. If you don’t risk looking foolish, you’ll never do anything special.” Ethan Hawke Those quotes are from the article Ethan Hawke says ‘Daybreakers’ is no ‘Twilight’: ‘It’s [...]

Bryce Dallas Howard on learning more fearlessness from her character

Bryce Dallas Howard on learning more fearlessness from her character

Bryce Dallas Howard portrays the “unapologetic” Fisher Willow in The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, from a screenplay by Tennessee Williams. Howard says “The Hollywood scene, these parties, freak me out. I’ve never had a sip of alcohol in my life. I wasn’t interested in losing control. “There was alcoholism in my family, so I [...]