“I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff.” SelfActorsStuffMy OwnConsciousPerformancesSelf Conscious Author:Matthew Lewis
“I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life.” WantKindSaidTodayActorsSoundStupidPaintingConsciousPainterPainting A Picture Author:Franka Potente
“I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I somehow gave off an impression at an audition that had them mentally put me in a three-piece suit or put an attache case in my hand. If there was a stiff-guy part, the director would brighten up when I came in.” IfsSelfSometimesHandsGuyThreeActorsCasesPiecesDirectorsConsciousStartingImpressionSuitsAuditionsSelf ConsciousPomposity Author:Charles Kimbrough
“Actions are interesting to watch. I learn about the actors. Their movements are emblems of the tensions in this internal landscape, which their actions resolve. About-to-act is an interesting state to experience, because I am conscious of just those tensions. Acting itself feels fairly dull; it not only resolves, it obliterates those tensions from my consciousness. Acting is only interesting as it leads to new tensions that, irrelevantly, cause me to act again.” FeelsStatesActionActorsCausesInterestingActingConsciousnessWatchesMovementConsciousLandscapeTensionDullInternalsResolveEmblems Book:Dhalgren Source: Dhalgren
“Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less. Unfortunately, there's a style of acting going round, especially with the younger actors, where they talk without even moving their lip. Maybe it's because my hearing probably isn't what it was 40 years ago but I'm sitting there going "What did they say"?” ThinkingYearsLittlesFilmMovingActorsActingStageStyleConsciousSittingYears AgoRoundsLipsHearingTheatreSpeaking UpFilm ActorsStage Actors Author:Clint Eastwood
“All behavior involves conscious or unconscious selection of particular actions out of all those which are physically possible to the actor and to those persons over whom he exercises influence and authority.” PersonsActionActorsInfluenceParticularExerciseAuthorityBehaviorConsciousUnconsciousSelection Book:Administrative Behavior: A Study of Decision-making Processes in Administrative Organization Source: Administrative Behavior: A Study of Decision-making Processes in Administrative Organization
“I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.” LittlesSelfActorsBitsLittle BitConsciousSelf Conscious Author:Chris Lilley
“There's often rarely any dialogue in a sex scene. With your fellow actor, it's good to talk about what the unspoken dialogue is, that's happening in the scene. You've got to play something rather than feel self-conscious or exposed.” FeelsSelfPlayActorsSexSceneHappeningsConsciousFellowsDialogueExposedSelf ConsciousUnspoken Author:Geoffrey Rush
“The only disadvantage to directing if you've been an actor is how self-conscious you are. When I'm directing, I'm always so aware when I'm speaking to an actor of how easily I could throw them off by saying something careless or not being clear or concise. So it does make you watch your words in a way that sometimes is unhelpful.” IfsWayDoeSelfSometimesActorsWatchesClearConsciousCarelessSelf ConsciousDisadvantagesConcise Author:Sarah Polley
“What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it anyway. That's the gig, pretending that you are comfortable.” ShouldSelfActorsSituationWalkingComfortableConsciousFrightenedPretendingGigsSelf Conscious Author:William H. Macy
“I was a Shakespearean actor, I had preconceived ideas, line readings - everything was a gesture, everything was conscious.” IdeasReadingActorsLinesConsciousGesturesPreconceived Ideas Author:Dennis Hopper
“The flow of action continually produces consequences which are unintended by actors, and these unintended consequences also may form unacknowledged conditions of actions in a feedback fashion. Human history is created by intentional activities but is not an intended project; it persistently eludes efforts to bring it under conscious direction.” HumansMayActionFormActorsEffortConditionsFashionProduceActivityProjectsConsciousConsequenceFlowFeedbackHuman HistoryEludeUnintended Consequences Author:Anthony Giddens
“A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to widdle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious.” TryingSelfActorsDealsBattleConsciousTricksSelf Conscious Author:Billy Campbell
“I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.” PeopleIfsThinkingSelfJobsUsedActorsCan DoKnowingFrontsSpeechConsciousAskingCamerasNervesFuneralSelf ConsciousEulogy Author:Eddie Marsan
“I'd done two years on a soap opera where I was shooting things every day and they gave me a hard time about that, which I think is the wrong way to teach a young actor. They just made me really, really self-conscious about everything I did, which is the opposite of what you need to be when you're filming.” ThinkingWayNeedsYearsMadeTwoSelfHardDoneYoungActorsTeachConsciousOppositesShootingHard TimesTwo YearsOperaSoapSelf ConsciousWrong WaySoap OperasYoung Actors Author:Iwan Rheon
“I don't think, as a 15-year-old, you're that conscious about a lifetime career. I didn't think: "I'm a serious actor." I never studied acting or anything when I was that age.” ThinkingYearsAgeActorsActingCareersSeriousConsciousLifetimeOld You Author:Keri Russell
“God bless him, I mean a lot of times you get non-actors on a set and they get really self-conscious, especially when doing something crazy like singing along with Phil Collins. They get sort of reserved and self-conscious. Mike [Tyson] completely trusted Todd [Phillips] and totally put everything into it.” MeanSelfActorsCrazySingingConsciousBlessTrustedMikeGet RealSelf ConsciousReservedGod BlessTyson Author:Ed Helms
“I don't have any conscious memory of wanting to be an actor, but early on, there was something in my makeup that I felt comfortable with. Then when I was around five or six, I started going to the movies and gradually it dawned on me that I was like one of those people on the screen. And that was it. There was never any question or doubt about what I was going to do for a living.” PeopleActorsFeltMemoriesDoubtFiveSixComfortableConsciousScreensMakeup Author:Martin Sheen
“I got very self-conscious about the way I look. So I, especially with young people coming into the industry and young actors, I feel it's really terrible to start with their looks. Right? Because especially for women, it just puts you in your head at a time when you should really be focused on your work and what you're saying and doing and not how you look.” PeopleWayFeelsShouldLooksSelfYoungActorsIndustryTerribleConsciousFocusedSelf ConsciousYoung ActorsSaying And Doing Author:June Diane Raphael
“I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.” PeopleWayFeelsRealActorsWishInterestingSituationCareersPlansDirectorsConsciousListsScreenwritersCameraman Author:Viggo Mortensen
“Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.” ActorsConsciousAccentsPhysicality Author:Christina Ricci
“Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?” IfsWayLooksEyeActorsActingBrainWindArmsConsciousActressesCellsGood WorkBrain CellsFlapping Author:Cate Blanchett