Olivier Martinez Quotes

I liked a lot of the scenes I did with Ryan Phillippe.

I'm an actor who appreciates direction.

Every time you play a different role with different actors in different locations, you're developing a greater level of comfort in the act of doing this, which is why you're getting better all the time.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

I've worked with actors who were very helpful and a lot better than I was.

I love working with great actors.

I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.

It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've been in jets and town cars for three years.

You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you.

It's been a lot of fun getting to work with Tracy Middendorf, who plays my mom. As an actor, it's always fun to have different parents and to create different familial dynamics than you have in your real life.

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

They did cast me as an ingenue once, and the novelty was nice. But I said, 'There is nothing here to play!' I really like getting into the meat of a role.

Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.

As an actor, you pay attention very closely to everything that happens to you, and you're constantly watching others as well, trying to just find out where everything comes from.

I'm hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good.

When you work with Sir Anthony there are days when he will do a lot of takes if he's really enjoying a scene.

Contrast of emotions is definitely something interesting that you like to do as an actor.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

Unfortunately, when you're an actor you have to act. It's not like you can sit in your living room, your bedroom, your study or whatever and act with yourself. It requires having somebody to respond to.

The first feature film I did, when I did 'Night Shift,' I improvised quite a bit because I would improvise at the audition, so sometimes I would return to the original lines, and then when I was on set, I would improvise even more.

I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.

I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me.

I'm a huge fan of actors, and I love when people find moments and a scene works. There's nothing more that I love than to go over to another actor and say, 'Yeah! You just rocked that one, baby!'

A role like I had on 'Parks and Rec,' to me, is very easy to understand, and that's something that I can do with my eyes closed.