Marshall Allman Quotes

What I say about actors is you always want to find an actor you can play ball with. You throw the ball at them and you want them to throw it back. Your ball playing is a lot better when you play with good ballplayers, like any sport. Every actor I know feels the same way.

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

They were always my favourite scenes working with Don Warrington. He's such a brilliant actor, he has such a presence, you don't have to act with him you just react you know he's so good.

When I do the roles, when I'm in the room and auditioning, I'll ask the director if they're cool with me adding stuff, or just improvising while we're doing it. And I would say, like, 90 percent of the time, they say, 'Absolutely.'

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

The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring.

And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.

Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.

One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.

Acting for me is like a ping-pong game. That's the secret of acting. When you have a really good actor, I always want to be as good as he is or she is.

I like doing a lot of research, and then you get there, you're in wardrobe, and then you're just reacting to what the other person is doing. The other actor is reacting to what you're doing, and it's this great back and forth. Because you've done all this research, you can use some of it or throw a lot of it out. You can get lost in it.

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.

When you act with phenomenal actors, it makes your job much easier because all you have to do is react.

Janet Carroll and Robert Pine, Chris Pine's dad, were in my first play, and they were so astonishingly good, I felt it raised my game instantly.

Acting, for me, is giving to your co-actors.

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.

I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.

Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships.

It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It's just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.