Words matter. These are the best Wes Bentley Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
But as a kid, I loved ‘Monty Python.’ My Dad was a devout watcher. We used to watch it when we ate dinner!
I didn’t know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn’t really knowing anything about Opus Die.
I am aware of my film habits because I have for so long played guys who are darker or dealing with very complex issues, and they’re dealing with their darker sides.
A lot of actors like to get themselves worked up, and I think from what I saw from Mr. Redford, he goes the other way. He relaxes into it.
A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it’s far enough away so that you really understand it. There is real life in this movie, but it hovers just an inch above reality.
Being in New Zealand, which is incredibly beautiful – I think it’s paradise – it’s just the perfect place. Everything about it I love, and I would love to live there.
As an actor, you always want to reach back to being a child and having the spontaneity and the imagination of a child.
The first year at Juilliard is, I think, the best. And partly why I left – I only went one year. Partly why I felt okay leaving is that the most important elements, I believe, happen in the first year. What they do is they tear down all your conceptions of acting, and they take away all your tricks that you’ve learned.
Everywhere you turn in New Zealand, there’s something exciting to do. It’s the gem of the world. It’s so far away from the madness, and so you get that element. It was just stunning.
My imagination was really hyperactive as a child and animated. I had those elements, but as you live and go through the hardships, it fades. ‘Pete’s Dragon’ reawakened that. It rekindled the feeling of the invisible dragon.
It’s all in the writing. The writing has got to be there. Whether that’s dialogue or character, or whatever, it doesn’t matter. As long as they’ve done something special, than you can do something special.
I wanted fame, but I thought it would be incremental, and I became afraid of the overnight-sensation thing.
I always think about stuff I learned, in any scene. Juilliard taught me a lot.
Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.
I went in and read for ‘Maleficent,’ and it was hard to get a concept of what the imagery would be like. So you have a hard time seeing how you’ll fit in to the movie through the visuals.
Growing up, I could never decide what I wanted to be because I wanted to be so many things.
After ‘Four Feathers,’ I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn’t like how the business was.
