He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very awed about how much he still seems to be so in love with it, and so dedicated to making everything really real and really spontaneous.
I would go to his trailer in the morning and knock on the door and say, "How do I deliver this line? How do I make it funny?" He would say, "Okay, honey, this is how you deliver that line."
Melinda is Radha Mitchell - the beautiful Radha Mitchell. I play Will Ferrell's wife in the movie. He has a crush on Radha and we don't have a very good marriage.
Nancy has her vision and she's a formidable force to be reckoned with, and that's similar to most of the male directors I've worked with.
The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.
There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.
Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane's.
Whenever I was with Kevin Pollak, I had to leave the room.
With that accent? What is he doing? I don't know. Sometimes I could but when I couldn't, it was still really funny.
Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.
I am a member of the rabble in good standing.
My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.
Amanda starred in
When she was younger, she played a part in an off- Broadway revival of Clifford Odets' "Awake and Sing"
Amanda turned down an audition for "Ally McBeal."
In one of Amanda's first roles, she was cast to a role in NYPD Blue, where she played a kidnap victim who later fell for her abductor.
Ranked #44 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World(2002)."
Amanda supported herself during the audition phase of her career by waitressing and with the residual checks she received from a Skittles candy commercial.
Peet treated acting as more of a hobby than anything else, and only began to consider it a potential career after her drama professor at Columbia University encouraged her to audition for renowned acting teacher Uta Hagen.
Amanda attended Friends Seminary, a private, Quaker school located in downtown Manhattan. When she was in 8th grade, Amanda had a crush on a senior at her high school -- actor Liev Schreiber. Other alumni include Kyra Sedgwick, Julia Stiles, and Vera Wang.
Of recent years, Amanda has become one of David Letterman's favorite and most frequent guests
Amanda got engaged to screenwriter David Benioff, writer of Troy, on July 19, 2005.
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