Adam Goldberg: “I feel very bizarre acting”
“I generally just feel like I’m posing as an actor, to be honest.” – Adam Goldberg
January Jones On Life Before “Mad Men”, Betty Draper and Why You Should Not Listen To Ashton Kutcher
From GQ: On her career before Mad Men: ‘[With modeling] You’re like an object. They move you around. And I felt like, God, I’m miserable. I hate modeling,” she says. “When I moved back to New York, the agency said I owed them $20,000. So I left the agency and
Michael Rady on Melrose Place and Not Booking a Role For a Year
“I had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager.” – Michael Rady
Kali Hawk: How She Built a Career From a One-Line Audition
“My character started out so small and I had such a small agent at the time that I didn’t really have any negotiating power.” – Kali Hawk
Abigail Breslin Talks “Zombieland” and How She Approaches Acting
From Movieline: This is a very different role in a very different movie for you. Was Zombieland part of an intentional effort to change up your career a little, or do you just take whatever role you like best that’s out there at the moment? You know, I really liked
Ty Burrell: “Modern Family”, Improvising and Single-Camera Comedies
“I know him now, to this day, because, uh, he’s me. He is just a hair away from me.” – Ty Burrell on His Modern Family Character
John C. Reilly Talks Comedy and Not Being a ‘Who’
“To me, acting is acting. When the circumstances are ridiculous, then you are in comedy.” – John C. Reilly
Jesse Eisenberg On Watching His Own Work and Reading Bad Scripts
“There was a lot of pressure because it was the first time I had a lead role in a big movie.” – Jesse Eisenberg on ‘Zombieland
Jesse Eisenberg On OCD & Not Having “Natural” Talent
“I hate watching me. I hate watching me. It just makes me feel awful.” – Jesse Eisenberg
90210’s Shenae Grimes: “A character that’s one-note is the most boring character to play, and it was very frustrating for me”
From Movieline: It’s no secret that 90210 went through a lot of retooling last season. How much input did you have in that? Last year, I was really nervous as to where my character was going because it didn’t feel like she was going very far. Like I said, a
Michael C. Hall & John Lithgow Talk ‘Dexter’ and How the Trinity Killer is Like a ‘3rd Rock From The Sun’ Character
From nytimes.com: Q. John, what was your reaction when you were approached to portray a madman who kills in multiples of three? MR. LITHGOW I felt like, “Oh, yeah. I know how to play this.” The fascination — which is the fascination of the whole series — is: How can
Bill Hader on How He Got His Start and His Advice to Actors
From Movieline: You P.A.-ed on TNT’s James Dean biopic and then Spider-Man, both featuring James Franco. Did he remember you later on during Pineapple Express or his SNL guest-hosting stint? No, he didn’t remember me. I wouldn’t have remembered me either; I was kind of a wallflower. You’re just a
Jon Hamm on Starting Out as an Actor and Getting Cast on ‘Mad Men’
From Vanity Fair: When did you start acting? Were you pretty young? You know, kind of. My first acting job, so the story goes, was in first grade. I was picked by my teacher to be Winnie the Pooh in our first-grade production of Winnie the Pooh—back when, you know,
Mad Men’s Vincent Kartheiser: “The words kind of do the work for me”
From Vanity Fair: Bruce Handy: I’m curious what your discussions were like with [series creator] Matt Weiner about Pete, when you first signed on. In the pilot, it feels like Pete’s going to be the villain of the series, the young snake-y executive. And probably on a lot of TV
Embarrassing Audition Memories From Big Name Actors
From CNN.com: Bill Nighy “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.” “Love Actually” “There was one that started out terrible, which was where I had to go to a disused tax office in Harrow [near London, England] very early in the morning and put on very tight velvet flared loon
Daniel Brühl on Audition Nerves
” I’m always nervous doing auditions — to be honest, I hate it.” – Daniel Bruhl
Michael Fassbender Talks ‘Inglourious Basterds’ and Difficult Accents
“I think all of them can be pretty difficult, do you know what I mean?” – Michael Fassbender on Accents
James Brolin Still Gets Typecast
“I’m always stuck in the more straight roles, you know.” – James Brolin
Paul Giamatti on Preparation and Using Dreams in His Work
“I don’t really know how to play jokes as jokes; it’s easier for me to play all the comedy deadpan.” – Paul Giamatti
Eric Bana Talks His Career Strategy and How He Got Started
From LATimes.com: How he got started: He knew he wanted to act but had no idea how to get into it, so he wound up performing stand-up. Discovered quickly, he worked on sketch comedy television shows in Australia. After a few years he started feeling burned out, just at the