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During 'Anna Christie,' the biggest challenge I had was working with my daughter and sort of not stopping and asking an audience member for a camera to record the moment.
- Jeff Perry
#Audience
#Challenge
#Daughter
#Moment
I was one of the artistic directors of the Steppenwolf Theatre, which me and many dear buddies started all the way back in 1974, and I have a lot of that in my makeup.
- Jeff Perry
#Back
#Makeup
#Me
#Theatre
#Way
Most actors will tell you this - I don't really know how to connect, empathize with, or make worthy of any revelation a character that doesn't have love in there somewhere, that doesn't have an idealism or an empathy in there somewhere.
- Jeff Perry
#Character
#Empathy
#Know
#Love
#Will
Most actors will tell you, when they've got emotional stuff that's hard to carry around for hours and hard to try to do justice too, it just beats your butt.
- Jeff Perry
#Butt
#Hard
#Justice
#Try
#Will
I'm pretty peaceful and calm and sweet.
- Jeff Perry
#Calm
#Peaceful
#Pretty
#Sweet
Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.
- Jeff Perry
#Character
#Feel
#Own
#Respond
#Things
I feel gigantic affection for all of Homeland Security at airports.
- Jeff Perry
#Affection
#Feel
#Homeland
#Security
We actors are an especially superstitious lot.
- Jeff Perry
#Lot
#Superstitious
I went from rotary phone to Twitter. And was appalled at the notion.
- Jeff Perry
#Appalled
#Notion
#Phone
#Rotary
#Twitter
I've been blessed. Starting with Steppenwolf Theater and onward, learning from wonderful actors and getting to play with wonderful actors.
- Jeff Perry
#Blessed
#Learning
#Onward
#Wonderful
Everything about camera movement, about how film was made, shot architecture, and time management... I was horrible at all that.
- Jeff Perry
#Architecture
#Film
#Management
#Time
To have a drama teacher as a mentor was just like, 'Oh, what a gift.'
- Jeff Perry
#Drama
#Gift
#Just
#Mentor
#Teacher
I get people saying, 'Opera is too large a canvas for me. I don't love it. I love movies that feel almost like documentaries,' in terms of artistic vocabularies of storytelling. I totally get that discussion; that makes sense to me.
- Jeff Perry
#Canvas
#Feel
#Love
#Me
#Movies
I got to meet one Chief of Staff: Sam Skinner. He was Chief of Staff at the end of George Sr.'s White House.
- Jeff Perry
#End
#House
#Meet
#White House
#White
Gary Sinise and I go the furthest back of the Steppenwolf people; we were both saved from academic mediocrity as sophomores by being cast in 'West Side Story' by this transformationally beautiful teacher named Barbara Patterson.
- Jeff Perry
#Back
#Beautiful
#People
#Story
#Teacher
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