I got a call from my agent saying you have an offer to voice a cartoon by the name of 'My Little Pony.' And that's pretty much what went in my ear. So I asked him the three questions that actors always ask. I need to see the script, when and how much, which were legitimate questions.
— John de Lancie
I usually play the sort of hard-boiled guy who is forcing situations - I'm not usually playing the person in reaction.
I sail to Hawaii and back a lot, and it sometimes involves very terrifying experiences. And you have to keep yourself from becoming panicky.
The way you can see what an actor brings to a role is you turn the sound off. Everything else becomes subtext, the wink and the nod, and the attitude and all that kind of stuff is a little easier to see with the sound off.
I had a panic attack years ago in preparation for a very difficult show. And you cannot hear, or see, or you can't compute. It's quite terrifying.
A lot of the time you find that elements of a character are brought out by the actors playing them.
