Doug Warhit's Acting Blog

“Let the story do the work.” -George Clooney

“I love when people have a singleness of purpose and don’t get dissuaded. I can connect with that. I can recognize it. I think a lot of artists have that.” -Gary Oldman

“I’m not insane. I do know that I’m acting. But you forget about it. When you’re doing it right, there’s a thrilling suspension of the day-to-day and you’re in someone else’s head.”-Meryl Streep

“Even when we weren’t shooting I was dressing as a gardener. Because you don’t want to separate yourself from the character, not even for a second.” Demian Bichir, Academy award nominee for A Better LIfe

“When you consider the sheer number of awards that they give out in this town, they should just give you one at the airport when you arrive.” Jon Cryer

“When she was auditioning for Antony and Cleopatra, Carrie Preston (True Blood and The Good Wife) couldn’t find a good monologue for a woman so she chose to do Octatavius. She cut off all her hair and played it in total drag. People thought she was a boy. She got the part.”   -Entertainment Weekly

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“Art is all about giving yourself these terrifying challenges, these peaks to climb. You’re at the bottom of the mountain at the start of every new project thinking, Am I going to make it?” -Phyllida Lloyd director of The Iron Lady

“For me as an actor I am trying to figure out what I’m ill at ease with and try to go there.” -George Clooney