Best actors & mind Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Mind Believe States Actors Lines Ability Fine Type Ill Insane Performing Fine Lines Mentally Ill

Author:Samantha Morton

“I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.”

Mind Actors Serious Comic

Author:Alan Rickman

“For a while I thought about studying medicine at school and becoming a doctor because I've always been interested in psychology and how people's minds operate. But I'm able to explore some of that as an actor and ultimately I think it seems more interesting.”

People Thinking Mind Seems Able School Actors Interesting Study Psychology Becoming Doctors Medicine Becoming A Doctor

Author:Rumer Willis

“I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.”

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Author:Morgan Freeman

“The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium.”

Mind Persons Actors Deals Acting Essence Mediums

Book:Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production

Source: Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production

“With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person.”

Feels Mind Persons Character Feelings Able Film Actors Honest Strange Easier Being Honest Where You Are Strange Things

Author:Marketa Irglova

“As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions.”

Mind Children Play Wanted Actors Doctors Profession Lawyer Flight Flight Attendant

Author:Lavrenti Lopes

“The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.”

Inspirational Mind Important Body Motivational Actors Voice Acting Important Things Best Acting

Book:Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

“If you want anybody to have a different voice, you really have to visualize and hear the voices of all these people. Sometimes when I write with specific actors in mind, it helps.”

People Ifs Want Writing Mind Different Sometimes Helping Actors Voice Different Voices

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“With films, I just scribble a couple of notes for a scene. You don't have to do any writing at all, you just have your notes for the scene, which are written with the actors and the camera in mind. The actual script is a necessity for casting and budgeting, but the end product often doesn't bear much resemblance to the script--at least in my case.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“It is with some violation of the imagination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so closely do we identify these persons in our mind with the characters which they assume upon the stage.”

Mind Persons Character Actors Imagination Stage Relation Assuming Belonging Private Life Violation

Author:Charles Lamb

“The dialectical critique of positivist habits of mind ... is interested only in behaviour which is 'important' to the actor; that is, behaviour which is emotionally charged to the degree that it is either frequently recalled, reflected upon, or day-dreamed about. ... That science which is less discriminating in the behaviour it chooses to investigate gains clarity and distinctiveness at the cost of confining itself to the trivial.”

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Author:John Carroll

“When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight face because that was exactly what I had in mind.”

People Ifs Mind Long Would Be Faces Actors Periods Straight Face

Author:Bill Nighy

“It's one thing to be sitting at a drawing board, alone in your home and coming up with a fantasy character, and drawing her whichever way you feel like drawing, then dealing with a real performer. All of a sudden, things change. It's amazing, in working with actors, how much I learn from them and how many new lines will come to mind because of their personality or their strengths.”

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Author:Frank Miller

“Psychology was going to be my minor in college. I've always been really interested in the human mind, which is probably why I'm an actor.”

Mind Humans Actors Psychology College Human Mind Minors

Author:Crystal Reed

“I distinctly remember watching Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot, and my parents were discussing the fact that hes an actor. To me, it was a foreign concept. I was like, Someone is pretending to do that? Thats so awesome! After that, it just stayed in the back of my mind.”

Mind Facts Remember Actors Left Parent Feet Concepts Pretending Discussing Of My Mind Daniel Day Lewis

Author:Dominique McElligott

“First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience.”

Mind Firsts Actors Theater

Author:Eleanora Duse

“The director makes the movie. The director has to have the story in their head, has to know the style of the piece, has to answer questions from actors, design, set, lighting, every department throughout the pre-production, production, and post-production, because they've got it in their mind. They've got to know exactly what they want and what the style and story of the movie is. It's them. They make it.”

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Author:Jon Lovitz

“I wanted to be an actor, an astrologer, an astronaut; a lot of different things were going through my mind. But I also wanted to play guitar. I mentioned to my parents that I wanted an electric guitar for Christmas. They got me one! I sat there all Christmas morning making a lot of loud horrible noise.”

Mind Different Play Wanted Actors Parent Morning Guitar Horrible Noise Loud Sat Different Things Electric Astronaut Electric Guitar Christmas Morning

Author:Joan Jett

“Acting requires absorption, but not self-absorption and, in the actor's mind, the question must always be 'Why am I doing this?,' not 'How am I doing it?”

Mind Self Actors Acting Absorption Self Absorption

Author:Maureen Lipman

“The technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a half of additional height.”

Mind Body Actors Half Benefits Connections Technique Height Tension Inches Relaxation Vocal Mind Body Centeredness Mind Body Connection Responsiveness

Author:Kevin Kline

“As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.”

Ifs Knows Mind Sometimes Actors Picks Sitting Machines Cameras Who You Are Staring Rays Vacant

Author:Albert Brooks

“What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.”

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“You're not actually being a good actor all the time. But people refer to me as a good actor because they read it someplace, not because they've made up their own mind. So I'm very lucky!”

People Mind Made Actors Lucky Good Actors

Author:Alexander Siddig

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