Words matter. These are the best Brian J. Smith Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I try not to read acting books any more, but they set a high bar for me very early on.
My favorite singer is Ella Fitzgerald.
You get so close, a lot of close calls, and then it just doesn’t happen. That’s just the way the industry is. It’s very difficult.
People aren’t making as many movies as they used to, so youve got a lot of really big-name actors who are coming in, and they want to do pilots, so things kind of disappear for those of us who kind of have to still get in the room and audition and read for it.
You’re not supposed to do a television series that takes place in nine cities all over the globe. Everyone will tell you that that’s undoable.
I will say, I quite enjoyed ‘SG-1’. I’m a very big fan of ‘SG-1’. I especially love Ben Browder. I thought he did fantastic work in that.
When I was a first year student at Julliard, I wasn’t happy, not sure about this acting thing.
First season of ‘Survivor’ – Richard Hatch was fascinating.
I’ve been doing sci-fi for two years, and there is always something big going on. The stakes are always huge. You’re fighting for your life, or you’re dealing with personal stuff. It has really high stakes attached to it, and there are green screen and explosions. You’re going out on these really cool locations.
When you think someone really has the upper hand, you realize that someone has been played the entire time, and there’s a whole other layer where you think the person who is doing the playing has also been played.
You’ll get, like, 10 pages of sides the night before, and you have to go in and just wing it. For someone like me, I came from the theater, and I don’t like putting anything up in front of anybody until it’s really, really ready, so it can be very frustrating.
Juilliard. It was a brutal and beautiful experience.
