Quotes About Background Actors

#1. You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

Michelangelo Antonioni

#2. I really look up to actors like Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett who have a strong background in theatre.

Alexa Vega

#3. Most actors I know come from a screwed up background, so it makes sense that if you can walk on to a space and recreate your reality, then that's the place that will become very dear.

Peter Mullan

#4. I had a couple of friends, but I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book.

George R R Martin

#5. Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his dark profession an affront to his fellow actors.

Ian Fleming

#6. With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.

Werner Herzog

#7. You don't need great actors to do a 3D picture. All of this condescending stuff that they put out? "Oh, we will always need actors." Bullshit! They are able to take anybody and put some markers on them, and have them walk through an empty room. Then they paint in the background.

William Friedkin

#8. A lot of people who are actors and artists who work in Hollywood come from a background of abuse, and you can make abused people very fearful and they'll do what they're told. Hollywood definitely has a point of view that it sells.

Roseanne Barr

#9. I was really nervous working with actors, since I come from a photography background.

Gia Coppola

#10. Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we've danced in a movie behind the actors. We've always been very secondary.

Lacey Schwimmer

#11. I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit.

Ron Silver

#12. A producer is always behind the scenes, even more in the movies - nobody sees you. I didn't even meet most of the actors. When I worked on 'Top Gun,' I never met Tom Cruise. You were always in the background.

Giorgio Moroder

#13. Far too often we've let humanity become a commodity that serves us along the way, rather than an asset that enriches our journey.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#14. Silent as a flower, her face fell in dismay, aware that the ghost of lust ate and left, sensing that there was a different scent of perfume consuming the room, and that she had numbered and counted the he loves me, he loves me not of each petal, where the lifeless dust had settle.

Anthony Liccione

#15. I don't come to work as an actor. There are many directors who can direct without ever having acted and do a great job and connect with their actors and lead them to excellent performances without themselves having had an acting background.

Abdellatif Kechiche

#16. The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence

Swami Vivekananda

#17. Perception rules the world. Everyone knows that. Where we live and where we're from, you just can't escape it.

Lamar Odom

#18. What's genius about 'Gravity' is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best when you have foreground, middle ground and background.

Gavin Hood

#19. My first epiphany that this might work came on my first day, when I went into biofeedback. They hooked me up to computers through electrodes, put me in a comfortable lounge chair, put an eye pillow over my face, slipped speakers onto my head and played an audio guided visualization.

Brad Willis

#20. I feel very fortunate, I've been exposed to a lot of different cultures. If I wasn't from a multi-ethnic background, I wouldn't have had these great experiences. And one of the things that makes me a good actor is life experience.

Navi Rawat

#21. I don't know how to animate on the computer, and I'm really grateful that I worked with a couple of other guys. We called it our triumvirate, John Kahrs and Clay Kaytis, who really understood computer animation but loved and embraced hand drawn, which is Disney's heritage.

Glen Keane

#22. The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.

Rob Paulsen

#23. I've been shocked by film actors - 25 and under - having such confidence and cockiness to rewrite a scene. My background is more about the director being in control. It's all about yielding. It's an oddly submissive relationship in which you're moulded, Pygmalion-style.

Anne-Marie Duff

#24. Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.

Julian Barnes

#25. I don't think that you necessarily need a certain type of background to take on roles. You see actors from very, very privileged backgrounds playing working class characters and vice-versa. I don't think your background limits you as to what you can do.

Daniel Radcliffe

#26. Authentic gospel preaching always engages people with eternal issues.

Colin S. Smith