American - Actor | August 12, 1975 -
Sometimes being an actor is kind of demanding in very different ways.
Casey Affleck
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I think there's a certain amount of pressure depending on how demanding the part is, depending on how great the material is. I feel a certain amount of pressure to rise to the occasion.
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Lots of movies don't kind of work as well as they do on the page.
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The first thing that I remember auditioning for was a weather commercial in Boston, and I got the job. The idea of the commercial was that you ought to watch the weather in the morning so that you know what's gonna come later in the day.
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When I was a kid, we didn't really leave Cambridge, which was the town where I grew up in.
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You can start with a great director and great actors and have a great script - and it still just doesn't work. It's kind of a mystery how that happens.
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I feel like there's an obligation - this sounds terribly pretentious - if you're an artist, to share your own experience in a way that's truthful and honest: 'This is what I have to share; this is my life.'
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If you're a director and someone shows up and asks how I do it, I'd imagine, as a director, you're like, 'Man, I've got a million decisions to make; can you show up with an idea for the scene?'
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It's part of the actor's job to show up with a head full of steam, to have their own take on this. So that way, you're not relying on, 'OK, tell me how to do it.'
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It's really fun when a scene doesn't work.
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