Latest Amy Ryan Quotes from Interviews

• When you're on a movie and the production department says, "We need old photographs of you - your character - when you were 20-years-old." I usually tell them it's in storage or I had a fire. I go back to these old photos and there's never a good photo or they're of times that I'm so glad I'm out of. They have nothing to do with the character that you're playing, so it feels false. That's one of the hardest things for me in terms of looking back.

  Amy Ryan

  Character, Photograph, Term

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Some jobs you do - maybe you don't - are jobs that pay mortgages and some are art and I don't care about not being paid on those.

  Amy Ryan

  Art, Care, Mortgage

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I was actually fortunate that I never had to have any other job than being an actor. I don't have those odd stories of having to make some money here or there, but certainly there are some credits on my résumé I wish I hadn't done. It paid my health insurance, and I say that just from a creative standpoint, shows I'm not that proud of, things like that.

  Amy Ryan

  Creative, Wish, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It's deeply personal to watch actors go to those dark places. It can be scary, so you channel them all your love and energy, and you know you'll be safe on the other side.

  Amy Ryan

  Dark, Scary, Energy

  Source: www.elle.com

• I love Morocco - it's a real challenge to all five senses. You think you know something, and you don't. It's wonderful. It keeps you on your toes that way.

  Amy Ryan

  Real, Thinking, Challenges

  "Amy Ryan Interview GREEN ZONE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 10, 2010.

• You try to follow suit and the directors I work with, like Sidney Lumet (on film in Before The Devil Knows You're Dead and TV in 100 Centre Street) who thinks actors hung the moon, thinks they can do anything, but he also works really quickly, the same like Clint Eastwood, and so you better also do your homework, you know?

  Amy Ryan

  Thinking, Moon, Devil

  Source: collider.com

• It happens a lot, but I also think of it as not so much like being abandoned by a director 'cause they're worried about a technical aspect, but I think actually that's my job.

  Amy Ryan

  Jobs, Thinking, Directors

  Source: collider.com

• You know, there are a lot of directors, like Clint Eastwood (on Changeling) is one where he casts you and you know in many ways that's enough for him and so, you go, ok, well, he saw something. Ok, what is it that he saw? What is it that I brought to this and why am I right for this and not trying to double-guess it and get in your own way and get psyched out, 'cause he trusts so much.

  Amy Ryan

  Trying, Directors, Way

  Source: collider.com

• I enjoyed learning something and, uh, so I think like with anything in life, in the schoolroom in an artistic endeavor, if you have just a really good teacher, it's inspiring. I certainly use, in my work, I mean, I used to rely heavily on imagery. I was obsessed with this photograph that was in the NY Times of a fish engulfing a smaller fish and this smaller fish had this look in its eyes; it knew what was about to happen and, I don't know how they ever captured such an image, but I've used that for a play I (did). It's called "Saved."

  Amy Ryan

  Teacher, Mean, Eye

  Source: collider.com

• The greatest inspiration I draw upon is, is this city (New York) and riding the subway and watching people and I find that's kind of like the best, the best acting teacher. You know, I wonder, like people who have huge celebrity, sometimes I feel bad, should this be one of their methods 'cause I don't know how they can observe life anymore, because they become the observed. So, I, I appreciate that New York can still do that.

  Amy Ryan

  Teacher, New York, Inspiration

  Source: collider.com