Thomas Jane
Thomas Jane
Thomas Janeis an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, and comic book writer. He has appeared in films such as Padamati Sandhya Ragam, At Ground Zero, The Crow: City of Angels, Boogie Nights, The Last Time I Committed Suicide, Thursday, The Thin Red Line, Deep Blue Sea, Dreamcatcher, The Punisher, The Mistand Mutant Chronicles...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth22 February 1969
CityBaltimore, MD
CountryUnited States of America
To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character.
Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it.
Most actors have a process that they can go through, that they rely on, or that they've discovered, and that can evolve from project to project.
Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them.
There's a fine line for me between character acting and leading man acting - the best is a combination of the two.
Our agency is community based, so we have tried to adapt to fit the needs of the community. We are not the same as we were 40 years ago.
It allowed me to explore beats of the play in an academic environment where there is a lot of feedback.
Build your own pigeonhole! I subscribe to that philosophy.
I'd like to say as I get older, I try to move toward more sophisticated - more complex - material, but that's just not true. As I get older and more mature - as I started to mature as an actor and an artist - I start looking for stories that are really simple... simply told, straightforward stories that don't make any pretenses about what they are, or ones that are couched in other things to give you permission to enjoy them.
I find that as a kid, I could take much more violence, blood, guts, and gore, and you could bring it on and nothing was too shocking for me as a kid or teenager. And now, I'm at 35 and my tolerance for that stuff is much less. As I grow older and closer to the grave, that stuff becomes more and more disturbing to me.
We always need more tutors, because there are students who are waiting for a tutor to help them improve their reading, writing, math, or basic computer skills.
It was a great experience. It helped me clarify a few things.
It's kind of true that they just start making the same movie over and over again. It's also true that the times dictate what kind of movies get made and what kind are not. So I'm always looking for something that's a little fresh and something that I haven't seen before.
To stand there and do nothing on film is probably the hardest thing to do.