Robert Forster
Robert Forster
Robert Wallace Forster, Jr.is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as John Cassellis in Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool, Lebanese terrorist Abdul Rafai in the 1986 action-thriller The Delta Force and Max Cherry in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He has appeared in films such as Mulholland Drive, The Descendants, Me, Myself & Irene, Firewall, Alligator, Lucky Number Slevin, Psycho, Olympus Has Fallen, and its...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth13 July 1941
CityRochester, NY
CountryUnited States of America
It's what you do every time. You isolate what you know, and you create a mental image of what you're doing. Every time you speak you don't have to think about it. Words come out of your mouth based on what you know. That's the same job every time.
There really is no need to sell 10 million copies of your album and while that situation would certainly have helped us, it's not what we're about. Looking back now I'm sort of glad that I never ended up being a rock star and standing on a PA stack in a stadium waving a white flag round, if you know what I mean.
First time I ever played a bad guy. I didn't want to do it. I got stuck in bad guys for 13 years after that.
I decided I would open this little actors' workshop I always told actors to look for. That gave me something to do on Wednesday nights, and after about a year of that, I realized that some of the things I was saying to actors probably had broader application. I ran into a magazine called 'Speakers For Free.'
I do try to be resentful, I really do, but I just can't bring myself to do it.
Grant wrote the melody and it wouldn't leave my head, so I grabbed it and started work on the lyrics. It worked really well, too.
The job is trying to create movie shots that have depth, that have the meanings you need them to have, and then good enough so that they will add something to the final picture. They will make the picture; they'll get into the picture, and give them what they need. It's an interesting job.
You've got to internalize the character. You've got to learn the words. These are separate things, but they work together.
You can win it in the late innings if you never quit.