Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals.
So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation.
I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier.
I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company.
We have too many actors for the jobs available.
The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained.
I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves.
A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all.
Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.
With both Caddyshack and Vacation, it's not like the subjects were serious enough that they engaged my interest for another round. I love the characters, and the actors were great, but I didn't see the need to make another Vacation movie.
I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.
You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye.
I mean, you know, actors lives - you're forgotten. Look at Barrymore, and look at all the great actors. They're forgotten after awhile.
If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along.
People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.