Greg Mottola Quotes

Many times, when a director reads a script and wants somebody who says 'Far out', then they let me do what I want with it and that's usually more interesting for an actor.

I think it's always challenging to look at a script and make it your own while maintaining the sense of what the style of the show is.

I think the best actors do both. I think they fulfill what you want them to do, in terms of the vision for the whole piece. And then they always bring something that does surprise you and shock you.

I could do Daniel Day-Lewis's job as well as him.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

I'm always amazed when any actor can decipher my direction.

I may not be Meryl Streep, but I am not untalented.

I really don't know what I'm doing... I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that's all I really do.

Thankfully I'm a better actor than football player, or at least I hope so.

Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about.

They sent me the script, asking me to play the part of a general. I have never played the part of an authority figure. I've never thought of myself that way. I was uncomfortable with it, but I worked at it and knew I had a guttural voice for a general.

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

I think it's the same to be an actress anywhere because the profession is about attitudes towards events - it is a process to try to understand life. I think this is the case for actors across the world.

As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.

Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.

I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.

I used to watch people like Richard Burton and Mel Gibson and think, 'I could never do that.'

If I read a part and think I can connect to it, that I can touch people with it, I will do it, no matter what its size. And if I think I can't do something with a part, I won't take it.

When I'm offered a role, I look at what I think I can do with it. I look to see if I can project myself into it.

I might just be way too boring to ever be a really great actress.

As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.

I don't want to do 'Hamlet.' I don't want to do Robert Redford roles or Mel Gibson roles or Kevin Costner roles, because I'm not going to be good at them.

When you read a play, the words speak to you. When you read a script, there's no way you can tell if that's the way that movie will turn out.

If you are still thinking about a script after five or ten years, that's a sign that it's good - not that it's stale. And the opposite is true - if everyone wants to make your movie, that's a sign that it probably sucks.

I can be such a Little Lord Fauntleroy about what I even audition for.