“The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.” SufferingActorsEmotionBritishDeliberateStiflingStiffness Author:Ivor Novello
“I think when you're an actor and you're drawing on your emotions all the time, you need to be quite steady.” ThinkingNeedsActorsEmotionDrawingSteady Author:Kelly Reilly
“Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's what I like.” MenFeelsKindPainActorsEmotionNice Author:Miles Teller
“Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.” ArtFormActorsEmotionEmotionalArt IsAbuseDramaticMasturbationCatharticActing From Actors Book:Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization
“I think an actor can actually gather moments, memories and emotions for his next character. So, it's a constant work.” ThinkingMomentsCharacterNextActorsMemoriesEmotionConstant Author:Gaspard Ulliel
“I love Kimberly Peirce. Incredibly intense is a good way of describing her. Brutally honest. Really sharp. She's a director for actors. That's what she's best at, sitting down with an actor and just getting to the heart of what a scene is. And getting to the heart of not just what the scene is and the character is, but what you are, and how to build that bridge between the "me" and the character, and those emotions.” WayHeartCharacterActorsEmotionHonestSceneDirectorsSittingIntenseBridgesDescribingGood WaySitting DownBrutally Honest Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“My main goal as an actor, with my craft or whatever poncy way you want to say it, is to always take the audience with me. To make them feel for me, or to make them hate me, I want a reaction. I want their emotions. The worst reaction someone can have is, "eh."” WayWantFeelsHateActorsGoalEmotionAudienceWorstReactionsCraftsHate Me Author:Adelaide Kane
“Comedic actors can be looked at as a lower form because we have to put ourselves in a lower place than most of the audience. I think lofty emotions are somehow considered more special. The best stories in the world to me are the ones that elicit a real emotion, but have humour.” ThinkingWorldRealStoriesFormActorsEmotionAudienceSpecialHumourLoftyComedicReal Emotion Author:Jim Carrey
“From a Buddhist point of view, emotions are not real. As an actor, I manufacture emotions. They're a sense of play. But real life is the same. We're just not aware of it.” RealPlayLife IsActorsViewsEmotionPoint Of ViewReal LifeBuddhist Author:Richard Gere
“An actor can do a play on Broadway for three years. Every night he's expressing the same emotion in exactly the same way. He has developed a technique to convey those feelings so that he can get the ideas across. Or a musician may not want to play that damn music at all, but he has a booking and has to do it.” WayWantYearsMayIdeasPlayFeelingsNightThreeActorsCan DoEmotionMusicianTechniqueDamnThree YearsEvery NightBroadway Author:Richard Estes
“You have to find actors who have the ability to display a wide range of emotion effectively. That's so much harder than it seems.” SeemsActorsAbilityEmotionHarderWideRangeDisplayRange Of Emotions Author:Nicholas Sparks
“Mads is such a talented actor - it's almost like he wears his emotions on his sleeve, but not all the time - when he decides that he needs to, he has such access to his emotional life and it is just really incredible. He can do everything with just his eyes.” NeedsEyeActorsCan DoEmotionEmotionalIncrediblesAccessHis EyesSleevesEmotional Life Author:Gillian Anderson
“I've been in scenarios as an actor where you have to manufacture an emotion that's not really there, but it wasn't hard with Halle because she's a great person and very beautiful, so it ain't a tough job at the end of the day.” PersonsEndsHardJobsBeautifulActorsEmotionToughThe End Of The DayScenariosVery BeautifulGreat Person Author:Benjamin Bratt
“To be an actor or actress, you have to feel on a deep level and tap into emotions that you've never felt before. You're imagining how something would feel. You have to use your imagination so much.” FeelsUseActorsFeltImaginationLevelsEmotionActresses Author:Elle Fanning
“If you think back to the moments when you've gone through the most pain in your life, or the most severe anxiety, your body is very much involved in that. Your body is expressing those emotions. So, when we, as actors, try to access those feelings, the body is a great tool to use.” IfsThinkingTryingMomentsUseFeelingsBodyPainActorsEmotionGoneInvolvedAnxietyToolsAccessYour BodySevere Author:Joel Kinnaman
“When you feel betrayed by someone that you trust the most... As an actor, you look for something that's going to let you express some of your inner emotions and anger.” FeelsLooksActorsEmotionBetrayed Author:Terrence Howard
“What I love in working on film is just working with actors. It's one thing to write scenes alone over a keyboard and to imagine the actions and reactions in your head, but it's a completely other thing to hear actors speaking your words, to see their bodies bringing the fullness of emotion, need, desire and pain to life right in front of you. It's amazing.” NeedsWritingBodyActionPainFilmDesireActorsEmotionImagineOne ThingFrontsSceneReactionsFullnessKeyboardsAction And Reaction Author:Dee Rees
“Acting is not a lofty performance; it is simply the source of becoming and existing transparently. Acting, I find, is the art of frothing to the surface every raw and honest emotion. The moment an actor pretends, he loses his audience forever” ArtMomentsActorsLosesActingEmotionAudienceForeverHonestSourceBecomingPerformancesSurfaceLofty Author:Masiela Lusha
“I think you have to be very secure as an actor to escape yourself - to revisit someones past, whether youre portraying another person or creating someone, and then to come back to who you are and not bring those emotions with you.” ThinkingPersonsPastActorsEmotionCreatingWho You AreSecurePortraying Author:Alex Pettyfer
“You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.” LongMomentsFilmActorsChallengesEmotionPeriodsTricksLong Periods Of TimeFilm Actors Author:Aaron Stanford