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“Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.”

People Ifs Life Is Certain Actors Emotional Planets Performances Primaries Vocabulary Percentages

Author:Mary McDonnell

“I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it.”

Feels Kind Persons Actors Situation Emotional Sentences Uncomfortable Sensitive Feels Right

Author:Franka Potente

“Playing a robot is possibly the most difficult role you can have as an actor, because you have to take all your innate emotional responses and completely suppress them. Even the way you walk is affected.”

Way Actors Difficult Walks Roles Emotional Response Affected Robots Innate Emotional Response

Author:Kristanna Loken

“There is a lot of struggle in being an actor; you need so much emotional strength, no matter what level of stardom you have, that it's nice to have something steady.”

Needs Matter Actors Levels Struggle Nice Emotional No Matter What Steady Stardom Emotional Strength

Author:Sanaa Lathan

“Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.”

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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'm happy in a silent world - well, not a silent world but one that relies on - I'm in a pretty physical actor I suppose anyway, and I just don't - I don't struggle that idea of emotional expression just because there aren't words to explain yourself.”

World Wells Ideas Actors Struggle Emotional Expression Silent Rely Explain Yourself Emotional Expression

Author:Guy Pearce

“I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor. Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.”

Actors Acting Emotional Exposed Pants Requirements

Author:Paul Newman

“The real challenge in acting is in comedy. It's easier to get that gasp in a drama. Not easy, because you still have to find that emotional pitch. And when you do something in drama and you hear that sob from the audience it's so fulfilling. But as a comic actor, when the laugh is supposed to come and you punch in that line and nothing happens it is dreadful. It's horrific and you feel like dying right there.”

Feels Stills Real Happens Actors Easy Challenges Lines Acting Audience Laughing Comedy Dying Emotional Easier Drama Things Happen Comic Fulfilling Horrific Feel Like Dying

Author:George Takei

“Psychohistory, like psychoanalysis, is a science in which the researcher's feelings are as much or even more a part of his research equipment than his eyes or his hands. Weighing of complex motives can only be accomplished by identification with human actors, the usual suppression of all feeling preached and followed by most "science" simply cripples a psychohistorian as badly as it would cripple a biologist to be forbidden the use of a microscope. The emotional development of a psychohistorian is therefore as much a topic for discussion as his or her intellectual development.”

“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.”

Needs Eye Actors Can Do Emotion Emotional Incredibles Access His Eyes Sleeves Emotional Life

Author:Gillian Anderson

“Im not the kind of actor that can go completely cold into an emotional scene. I have to transport myself emotionally by whatever means possible, and that basically means you carry the situation with you all week, all episode or all day beforehand.”

Kind Mean Actors Situation Week Emotional Cold Scene Episodes Transport

Author:Jamie Bamber

“Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It is tasteless, formless, absurd. Without containment there is no art. All this vomiting and wheezing and bursting at the seams is no more great acting than the convulsions of raving maniacs.”

Art Actors Acting Emotional Discipline Absurd Unfortunate Detachment Abandonment Vogue Bursting Maniacs Spilling Vomiting Containment Wheezing

Book:The lonely life: an autobiography

Source: The lonely life: an autobiography

“Yeah, you know, if I'm having an emotional scene I do like to go off and be by myself; not to say that I'm a method actor or anything like that, but for scenes like that that are more emotional, I do like to take that night off and not be so social.”

Ifs Knows Night Actors Social Emotional Scene Method Yeah

Author:Shay Mitchell