Directors Who Can Also Act

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Directors Who Can Also Act#1

Posted: 4/22/07 at 11:21pm

Spike Lee
Woody Allen
David Lynch (For his voice alone...)

List some more!

[AnnaK<3LMIP]

re: Directors Who Can Also Act#2

Posted: 4/22/07 at 11:24pm

Mel Gibson

I mean, Denzel Washington? Gun to my head..of course.

[NathanLaneStalker]

re: Directors Who Can Also Act#2

Posted: 4/22/07 at 11:25pm

Ron Howard
Jim Henson (R.I.P.)
Bob Saget

For some reason I can't think of any others...

"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey

[AC126748]

re: Directors Who Can Also Act#3

Posted: 4/22/07 at 11:25pm

Paul Mazursky
Warren Beatty
Sydney Pollack
Kevin Smith
Alex Cox

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[Dre2387]

re: Directors Who Can Also Act#4

Posted: 4/22/07 at 11:26pm

Richard Attenborough

<--- the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream that I was assistant stage manager for during the 2007 season at the STNJ outdoor stage.

-Dre- You must remember all the same that at the crux of every game is knowing when it's time to leave the table... And it's important to be artful in your exit. No turning back, you must accept the con is done... It was a ball, it was a blast. And it's a shame it couldn't last. But every chapter has to end, you must agree.
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
There's a special kind of people known as show people. We live in a world full of dreams. Sometimes we're not too certain what's false and what's real. But we're seldom in doubt about what we feel.
~Curtains~
It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to, than I have ever known.
~A Tale of Two Cities ~

[Rathnait62]

re: Directors Who Can Also Act#5

Posted: 4/22/07 at 11:34pm

Dorothy Lyman
Ted Wass
Jodie Foster

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

[ahmelie]

re: Directors Who Can Also Act#6

Posted: 4/22/07 at 11:38pm

I feel like I've heard that Marian Seldes did some directing, but I can't recall.

Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done. -John Patrick Shanley

[Kitzarina]

re: Directors Who Can Also Act#7

Posted: 4/22/07 at 11:42pm

Penny Marshall

"You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" --Family Guy

"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.

Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"

[AC126748]

re: Directors Who Can Also Act#8

Posted: 4/22/07 at 11:42pm

And Garry Marshall, too.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[professor]

re: Directors Who Can Also Act#9

Posted: 4/22/07 at 11:53pm

Orson Welles
Laurence Olivier
Kenneth Branagh

"Inside every actor there is a Tiger, a Pig, an Ass, and a Nightingale. You never know which one is going to show up." -John Michael Higgins in FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

Updated On: 4/22/07 at 11:53 PM

[StageManager2]

re: Directors Who Can Also Act#10

Posted: 4/23/07 at 12:00am

Kevin Costner

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia

[MargoChanning]

re: Directors Who Can Also Act#11

Posted: 4/23/07 at 12:05am

Chaplin
Scorcese
Tarantino
Fosse
Eastwood
Rob Reiner
Carl Reiner
Mel Brooks
Otto Preminger
George C. Wolfe
George Abbott
Walter Bobbie
Eva LeGallienne
Katherine Cornell
Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones
Christopher Guest
Polanski
John Huston
Hitchcock (sort of)

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

Updated On: 4/23/07 at 12:05 AM

[~FloweryFriend~]

re: Directors Who Can Also Act#12

Posted: 4/23/07 at 12:06am

Clint Eastwood
Ron Howard
Quentin Tarantino... just kidding

I starred in a short film called Magnetic Personality. Check it out!

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: Directors Who Can Also Act#13

Posted: 4/23/07 at 12:06am

Joe Mantello

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

[Dark_Angel]

re: Directors Who Can Also Act#14

Posted: 4/23/07 at 12:25am

Sydney Pollack! I loved him on Will & Grace!
Updated On: 4/23/07 at 12:25 AM

[mattonstage]

re: Directors Who Can Also Act#15

Posted: 4/23/07 at 12:53am

Yes, Sydney Pollack has been having a more succuessful acting career lately than a directing career. Between Husbands and Wives, Will and Grace, Death Becomes Her, just to name a few, he's flourishing as a character actor.

I killed the boss, you don't think they're gonna fire me over a thing like that!!!!

[Kristie-K2]

re: Directors Who Can Also Act#16

Posted: 4/23/07 at 1:13am

Academy Award Winner, Robert Redford, Best Director

[Cruel_Sandwich]

re: Directors Who Can Also Act#17

Posted: 4/23/07 at 3:16am

Christopher Guest is amazing. Able to change his look, voice, and demeanor in every film. He's a f***ing chameleon!

Though he vowed never to direct anything again (Which is a total shame), Billy Bob Thornton's work directing himself in SLING BLADE was amazing.

Quentin Tarantino may not be the greatest actor of all time, but his voice is hilarious enough that some of his lines become unintentional classics. ("...but I ain't nevah seen a one-legged stripper.")

[Cruel_Sandwich]

re: Directors Who Can Also Act#18

Posted: 4/23/07 at 3:17am

Same goes with David Lynch. Horrible horrible horrible actor but what a masterstroke it was to cast him as a deaf man, thus causing him to shout everything. ("COOPER! YOU REMIND ME OF A MEXICAN CHEE-WOW-WOW!")

[Jon]

re: Directors Who Can Also Act#19

Posted: 4/23/07 at 8:41am

Aww - I thought this was going to be about Broadway directors who started as actors, such as Jerry Zaks, Lonny Price, Gabriel Barre and Scott Ellis - not to mention Bob Fosse, Gower Champion and Tommy Tune.

[best12bars]

re: Directors Who Can Also Act#20

Posted: 4/23/07 at 8:54am

Ida Lupino

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[skingdom]

re: Directors Who Can Also Act#21

Posted: 4/23/07 at 9:20am

bobby de niro

lol

s.o.

[RadiGal2]

re: Directors Who Can Also Act#22

Posted: 4/23/07 at 9:33am

Barbra Streisand
Kevin Costner
Peter Bogdanovich

"I'm a one-eyed Mormon Democrat from conservative Arizona, and you can't have a higher handicap than that." ~The ever-great and fabulous Morris K. Udall.

[Mamie]

re: Directors Who Can Also Act#23

Posted: 4/23/07 at 10:19am

I really enjoy the work of many of those already mentioned - but my heart will always be with Francois Truffaut.

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[Borstalboy]

re: Directors Who Can Also Act#24

Posted: 4/23/07 at 10:51am

Don't forget Garry Marshall....sooo hilarious in SOAP DISH and LOST IN AMERICA.

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali