Chris Zylka Quotes

My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories about a character and then you throw it away. So then on set, if it doesn't come, then you didn't do your work.

Chris Zylka

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 9, 1985

Topics

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It becomes very easy as an actor to immerse yourself when you're in the real places.

Joe Cole

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I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day I would surf and do irascible things. And then, for some reason, as I got closer to my thirties, I thought, 'Okay Joel, you've wasted enough time.'

Joel Edgerton

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I just wanted to be the best dietician in the world - but then modeling took over.

Maye Musk

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We think continuity's important.

Sonny Mehta

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But I will say that Harve Presnell... he was one of those guys who, when you're standing in a room with him... he's such an older masculine force that I remember thinking, 'Wow, his voice makes me sound like Pee-Wee Herman.'

Tony Hale

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I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Lou Holtz

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I've certainly auditioned for big budget studio films. I don't know if it's because there's so much money involved, but a lot of times the pressure overwhelms me and engulfs me. I end up falling apart in the audition.

Jason Ritter

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In our culture, good looks are so important, and today he'd head straight for a plastic surgeon, but in Cyrano's time, the nose was who he was, and it didn't matter that he was a brilliant poet, a brilliant swordsman, a brilliant man. His nose defined him.

Douglas Hodge

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Yes, beef is what was for dinner last night. Tonight it will be my dinner, and it will continue to be.

Christopher Bond

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My mom was a problem solver.

Anne Wojcicki

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Good acting should teach people to understand rather than judge.

Peter Finch

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The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

Pearl S. Buck

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