Directors Who Can Also Act
Directors Who Can Also Act
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#1Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/22/07 at 11:21pm
Spike Lee
Woody Allen
David Lynch (For his voice alone...)
List some more!
AnnaK<3LMIP
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/20/07
#2re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/22/07 at 11:24pmMel Gibson
I mean, Denzel Washington? Gun to my head..of course.
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#2re: Directors Who Can Also Act
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
#3re: Directors Who Can Also Act
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
#4re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/22/07 at 11:26pmRichard 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 ~
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
~Curtains~
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
#5re: Directors Who Can Also Act
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
#6re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/22/07 at 11:38pmI 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
#7re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/22/07 at 11:42pmPenny 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"
"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"
#8re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/22/07 at 11:42pmAnd 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
Stand-by Joined: 7/3/05
#9re: Directors Who Can Also Act
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
#10re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/23/07 at 12:00amKevin 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
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#11re: Directors Who Can Also Act
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
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
Updated On: 4/23/07 at 12:05 AM
#12re: Directors Who Can Also Act
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!
#13re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/23/07 at 12:06amJoe 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)
-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)
#14re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/23/07 at 12:25am
Sydney Pollack! I loved him on Will & Grace!
Updated On: 4/23/07 at 12:25 AM
#15re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/23/07 at 12:53amYes, 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!!!!
#16re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/23/07 at 1:13amAcademy Award Winner, Robert Redford, Best Director
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#17re: Directors Who Can Also Act
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#18re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/23/07 at 3:17amSame 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#19re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/23/07 at 8:41amAww - 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.
#20re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/23/07 at 8:54amIda Lupino
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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skingdom
Broadway Star Joined: 6/29/03
RadiGal2
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/07
#22re: Directors Who Can Also Act
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#23re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/23/07 at 10:19amI really enjoy the work of many of those already mentioned - but my heart will always be with Francois Truffaut.
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#24re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/23/07 at 10:51amDon'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
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